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To Francis Galton   12 August [1872]

I have heard from Dr. Carter & have told him I will send the Carrier to University College on Thursday morning the 15th—1 I have told him that I have informed you to this effect

C. Darwin

Down. Augt. 12th.

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1
Charles Henry Carter was a physician whom Galton employed to assist in his experiments on rabbits (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter from Francis Galton, 21 November 1871). Galton was testing CD’s hypothesis of pangenesis (see Variation 2: 357–404) by transfusing the blood of one variety of rabbit into another and observing the colour of future offspring (see Galton 1871).

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