From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 7–8
Summary:
Experiments are not going well, but the quantity of blood transfused was small.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Georg Recht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 77
Summary:
Explains that law of inertia, and most of modern mechanics, is all wrong. Explains his concept of "elasticity" of bodies. Applies it to physiology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 81
Summary:
Describes the unusual appearance of a horse whose mother had previously borne a foal by a quagga. The effect of one mating on the subsequent pregnancy of another mating is explained by JJW using Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project