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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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.

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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.

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