From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A78
Summary:
Is sending some seeds of sweetpeas, which George [Darwin] said CD would plant for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A79
Summary:
Interested to hear about the peas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A80–1
Summary:
Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A82
Summary:
Sends a lecture CD wished to see
and corrects himself about the twins.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A83–A86
Summary:
Outlines a memoir he will give at the Anthropological Society in which he differs theoretically with Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A87
Summary:
Sends a proof of his "Theory of heredity" from the Contemporary Review [27 (1875): 80–95; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 329–48]. Welcomes CD’s help and criticism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A88–9
Summary:
Responds to suggestions and criticisms CD made to "theory of heredity" [see 10245].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A90–1
Summary:
Thanks for the peas which arrived in "beautiful order".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A92–3
Summary:
Outlines in simple form the statistical distribution of inherited characteristics in a theory of "organic units".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A94–5
Summary:
Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
