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DCP-LETT-10774

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[6–12 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/23)
Summary:

Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10776

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
9 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22)
Summary:

Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10839

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
11 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/24)
Summary:

Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11911

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[1 Mar 1879?]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/26)
Summary:

Can FG come to lunch on Monday?

Sorry FG has not been well and is soon going abroad.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11947

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Mar 1879
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/25)
Summary:

Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.

Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].

Asks about family letters.

Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
30 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/28)
Summary:

Thanks FG for an extract [about Dr Erasmus Darwin?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 June [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/28)
Summary:

Caroline Darwin says mysterious visitor’s name was Brand. It was in time of Colonel Pole. Never visited Mrs Pole or Mrs Darwin [Elizabeth Collier], but sent respectful messages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12100

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
10 June [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/27)
Summary:

CD’s father thought he had not been treated fairly about his share of his mother’s [Mary Howard Darwin’s] fortune. Will not allude to this [in Erasmus Darwin]. Surprising that grandfather did not make more money. Has found memorandum of his having lost £1500 in ironworks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12109

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
15 [June 1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/3/4/3)
Summary:

CD’s little biography [Erasmus Darwin] has turned out very dull.

May FG’s tour turn out pleasant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12317

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
14 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/28)
Summary:

Returns completed questionnaire concerning visualising faculty [see LL 3: 177–9]. Thinks age important. Recalls faces of school friends but cannot remember those of people recently met.

Comments on his part [of Erasmus Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12565

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Apr 1880
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/24)
Summary:

Encloses letter [see 12488] and circular from Henry Faulds [regarding thumb impressions]. Anthropology Institute may care about it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12782

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
30 [Oct 1880]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/30)
Summary:

Invites FG to lunch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13078

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 Mar [1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/31)
Summary:

Discusses dead earthworms on surface of ground after rainfall.

Describes experiments involving sensitivity of earthworms to light and how it reflects on their intelligence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 May [1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/32)
Summary:

Asks for return of letter from J. P. Bishop about hair turning grey at an early age in three generations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
18 [Dec 1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 2)
Summary:

Can FG call on Monday evening?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13732

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/33)
Summary:

Sends enclosure [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3581

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
25 January 1883
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB7 1881-1910 A. R. WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4143

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
27 July 1884
Source of text:
University College London, Special Collections: Galton 336, Box 161
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4142

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 March 1886
Source of text:
University College London, Special Collections: Galton 336, Box 161
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP1434

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
3 February 1891
Source of text:
  • University College London, Special Collections: Galton 142/2B/3, Box 68
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/234
  • Pearson, K. (1930). In: The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton. Vol. 3A. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [pp. 128-129]
Summary:

Suggests a Committee of the British Association "for the purpose of deciding the two great fundamental but disputed points in organic evolution" - whether individually acquired external characters are inherited, and the amount and character of sterility when species are crossed and hybrid offspring breed.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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