Von't'SiKHuleiwe with Vliadi-H Darwin 167 



appiiroiilly, pied uiarkiiiKu in very young Hilver f^T«y». I will write again aa Mjon aa I have 

 (Ipfmite results; iiuti when Iho little yellow follow is somcwlmt older, he ia now 6 weeka, I will 

 get opinions about liini. Very aincorely yours, Francis Oai-ton. 



//■ you can easily lay your Imuds upon Gould's AiitlirojKjIogy of N. America, I ithould be 

 grateful for it. 



(16) 42, Rutland (Jate, S.W. SovenAer 21/71. 



Mv DEAR Oakwin, I am truly aHliamed to have treHpaNHcd so long on your IcindnMs, in 



keeping the nibbits, but until now, owing to a variety of causes (including im cpidi-mic where 

 the animals art; kept), I could not a.sk for tlieni Imck. Now, all is ri'ady to receive thoni in 

 Univei-sity College and [ hIiouKI lie much obliged if yon would instruct your man to send them 

 there. I enclose laljels with the address:— Charles 11. Cart«»r, Xuseutn, University College, 

 Gower Street, London — to put on them. Mr Carter will receive them when they arrive. Please 

 tell your man to keep the bucks and does sejMirate and to write huckt on the hamp«?r which 

 contains them. Will you also let me know what I am indebte<l to you for their U-mX and kc«»p, 

 including a judicious 'tip' to your man. I am really most oblige<l to you, I should liave lH*n 

 stnindcd in this experiment, without the help, becau.se I have only 2 of my lot of rabbits alive 

 and they are lK»th out of condition and T doubt if one will live. 



The C^ollege nhiitu up at T) in thf d/ternimn and nothing can l)e received after that hour. If 

 that is too curly for the carrier, what .shall I do? — When may I expect them to arrive? My 

 rat.s have died sjidly, but owing to causes foreign to the effects of the operation. My last living 

 pair, after Ix'ing uniteil nt^iirly '^ months, were killed Inst week for the purpo.se of injection. Dr 

 Klein kindly did it for me. One animal was injected with blue and the other with rtxl, and 

 vaxcnlar union i» proved; but the connection was small, however l)r Klein thinks that with 



La more protracted connection the union would have be«»n more complete. So I shall go on with 



I vigour. Very sincerely yours, Fkancis G ALTON. 



(17) 42, Rutland Oatb, S.W. November 24/71. 



Mv DEAK Darwin, The results are indeed most curious — You must kindly permit me to 

 run down to you to-morrow (Saturday) for an hour or .so, to see them and to fix what to do. 

 1 see my train would land me at Orpington at 11.12, so T supjwse I should arrive at l>own at 

 about half past twelve. If however it should be a really wet da}', I would [xtstpone coming till 

 Tuesday. You are indee<l most kind to have t»iken all these pains for me and I sincerely trust 

 the experiment may yet Ix'ar some fruit. I happened to l)e very unlucky with my Angora 

 transfuinons but there is no reason why they or the cross-circulation should not succeed and I 

 ; will do my best to try it. Very sincerely yours, Francis Galton. 



[(18) 42, Rutland Gate, S.W. Dec. 2/71. (From AthnvteHtn) 



My dbar Darwin, The rabbit^) arrived quite safely and are in excellent condition. My 

 man's letter to tell me of their arrival did not reach me till after jxjst time last night or 

 I should have written earlier. Once again, most sincere thanks for your kindness in taking 

 care of them. Ever sincerely, Francis Galton. 



J<iH. 'I'Md [iii<l-l\ Down, liKcKKSiiAM, Kknt. 



My DEAR Galton, The Rabbits have lost their patches and are grey of different tints, so 

 you wei-e right. They are (juite mature now and ready to breed. We have put 2 does to a 

 buck, for one more generation. Had you not better have the others soon, as we shall soon want 

 space for the Breeders? 



Have you soen Mr Cnxtkes! I hope to Heaven y«m have, as I for one should feel entire 

 [confidence in your conclusion". Ever youre sincerely, Ch. Darwin. 



' I think this refers to Galton's investigations into spiritualism with Cnjokea (see our p. 6.1 

 \«l seq.). In More LHUrs of Charles Darwin, Vol. Ii, p. 443, there is a letter of Darwin t-o Ijuiy 

 Derbj' which reads: "If you had called here after I had read the article [proliably Cporikes' 

 'Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism,' (^mirterly Journal i>f' Sri^'ncf, 1S74] you would 

 have found me a much perplexed man. I cannot disbelieve Mr Crookes' statement, nor can I 

 believe in his result. It has removed some of my difficulty that the supposed power ia not an 



