Darwin to Francis Galton
- Date:
- Jan 1877
- Reference:
- GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/28
- Part of:
- Galton Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Description
Letter from Charles Darwin to Galton offering to send him an essay on the effects of conscription on the heights of men in France and their susceptibility to various diseases as those unfit for the army were left behind to propagate the race.
Date inferred from a letter from Galton to Darwin in response to this dated 12 January 1877. See https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-10783.
Publication/Creation
Jan 1877
Physical description
1 letter
Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.
Terms of use
The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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Location of original
The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.