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From:
William Farr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 32
Summary:

Discusses the Census Bill and CD’s attempt to get questions on consanguineous marriage added to the census.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Farr
Date:
17 July [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 76–7
Summary:

Writes concerning the questions on consanguineous marriages which CD wishes to have inserted into the Census. Discusses the form the questions might take and the value of the information that would be gained from them.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Farr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 33
Summary:

Is glad John Lubbock made the fight he did [to amend Census Bill to enable insertion of questions on consanguineous marriages].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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