The buck is well; Dr Carter has returned, and things will go better.
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The buck is well; Dr Carter has returned, and things will go better.
The carrier will call at University College on Thursday 15 August.
Sends thanks for Expression; offers some additions, and will send printed queries abroad if CD wishes.
Rabbits’ coats true in character. If the next ones are true, it is superfluous to keep trying.
Does not know why crying children rub eyes with knuckles.
Mentions FG’s article on prayer ["Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35].
Agrees the rabbit experiment has gone on long enough, but would like one more litter.
F. M. Balfour wants to experiment on Pangenesis. Asks FG to recommend coloured rabbits that breed true.
Comments on FG’s article ["Hereditary improvement", Fraser’s Mag. 87 (1873): 116–30]. Finds it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race".
Thanks for rabbits for Balfour.
Mentions reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas [of life (1872)].
Returns family documents about "Kepler" [William Huggins’ dog, see Collected papers 2: 170–1]; there is still some sort of investigation into the "precise mental condition" of "Kepler" and his relatives.
Collecting information about antecedents of eminent men of science. Sends questionnaire.
Comments about questionnaire CD completed for FG [for Galton’s English men of science (1874)].
Describes his early interest in collecting and his education.
Asks about determining the mean heights of two groups of men.
Thanks CD for completed questionnaire;
answers his query about determining mean heights of men.
Reports an incident of his "hereditary" habit of dozing, head in hand, such that he scratches his nose.
Invites FG to visit.
Is sending some seeds of sweetpeas, which George [Darwin] said CD would plant for him.
Interested to hear about the peas.
Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.
Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].
Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.
Sends a lecture CD wished to see
and corrects himself about the twins.
Thanks FG for issues of Revue [Scientifique vol. 7, containing lectures by Claude Bernard].
Ogle says twins [with crooked fingers] are his sisters.
Recommends book by M. A. Puvis [De la dégénération des variétés de végétaux (1837)].
Has heard that FG will write on inheritance. Huxley does not believe in E. G. Balbiani’s views on subject.