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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A13–14
Summary:

The mark he had thought a variation is not, and he thinks his infusion still too small even when the blood is defibrinised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 or 9] Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 36
Summary:

Brief observations on expression in Africa.

Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.

The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Duncan [Stewart]
Date:
[8 April 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0143; Reel 1054
Summary:

Comments on ability of eye to adapt to prismatic glass in corrective spectacles for double vision [see JH's 1869-10-31]. Heard of bad health of DS and John [Stewart]. JH is fighting bronchitis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project