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('inrnii>fin(l('iict' with C/inricx Ihirn'in 181 



12, Kirri.ANI) (iATK. Srpt. 2'J'".'i. 



My dkau Dauwin, In "Doiiu-.ttication," ii, 'ihW, you ciunte nx a Mtriking iiiNtancu of mriation 

 II oiLsc c-oiiiiiiuiiicnUMl liy Dr O^l" ot 2 ){irl twiiiH who hml a crookud lingor, no relative having 

 tho Niiinu. It hu|>{M!iied, in my twin inquiri(>H, that it camo waH sent nio which in |Miiwibly or 

 prolmhly the same as your'a — hut which is a ca.se of rrvn-inon. I Hend the particulnnt of thin 

 over Imf. You might think it worth whilu in tho view of your 2n«l Edition to a-sk Dr Ogle if 



iiis ciiHo uxia that of tho .Misses M . I am not ft<i|uiiinte«l iiiyHoif cither with the MijMe>i 



M or with Dr M . Dr GiUliriHt of the Crichton Institution, DuinlrieH, s«-nt me Dr 



M 's communication. We are only lately Imck in KiikIiwkI and are not even yet .settled in 



town. Will Frank kindly send me a line iiliout the «l«ffr^/>clM1 With uniUxl kind reniemhranceM 

 to you all, Kvcr sincerely, Fkan<Ih Ualton. 



I have b«!on <leligliting in your "Insectivoroua Plants. 



Extract from a private letter to me, written by Dr V M— — . (No address on this 



letter, hut it is from Scotland and was encli>8ed by Dr Gilchrist of Dumfries.) 



The Mit$e« M (twins Oct. 16, in 1875) 



"There is u congenitid flexion at the second jihalan-jeal joint of tlie little finger in each caae, 

 but the lloxioii is not so marked as to cause unsiglitlinc.ss or discomfort. I have ascertained 

 that they inherite<l this peculiarity from their grandmother on the mother's side. Tlie parents 

 had no truce of it, nor any '>ni' nf fi>iir brothers and three sisters!" 



Down, Beckeniiam, Kent. Sept. 22nd, 75. 



My dkar Oalton, I am particularly obligi>d for your letter, and will write to Dr Ogle. 

 I think his case is different, and if you do not hear from me again, you will understand this to 

 be the case. 



I enclose a letter which when read kindly return to me. 



With respect to the sweet-peas if you have time I think you had better come down and 

 sleep here and see them. They are grown to a tremendous height and will be very <Iifficult to 

 separate. They ought to have been planted much further apart. Tliey are covered with in- 

 numerable |«xls. The middle rows are now the tallest. Three of the plants are very sickly and 

 one is dead. The row from the smallest peas are still the smallest plants. See what I say in 

 " Var. under Dom." Vol. ii, p. 347, about the peculiar properties of plants raised from the tnutll 

 terminal peas of tho pixls. 



I am surprised and very much pleased at your liking mj' "Insectivorous Plants." I hope 

 that y<)ur tour has done you much good. My dear Oalton, Yours very sincerely, Cu. Darwin. 



42, Rutland Gate. Sept. 24th, 1875. 



My dkak Dauwin, We have stayed on in town another day s<j I have got from the Royal 

 Society and send herewith Part.s XIV and XV of the Hevue Scieittijitfite which contain the 

 part of Claude Bernard's lectures which you wished to see. I have put pencil X at page.s 324, 

 325, 327, 352 (in each case on tlie 2nd column of the page)'. These are the principal pa.<i.sage«. 

 Please send the pamphlets back when done with, to the Royal Society, an retw-ned hy me. Also 

 T return the slips from Nature (Romanes) with many thanks. 



Overleaf 1 send a note about the continuation of my Pangenesis experiments. I see I made 

 a great mistake about the number of generations when we spoke yesterday. There were onl}* 

 3 gei\erations operaUnl on, on both sides. I don't care t<» claim cases in which a gn>at grand-iwm 

 was matched with a grand-rfai»y/»<er a.s an additional generation. Besides, the cases were few. 



Very sincerely yours, Francis Oalton. 



Nov. 2nd [1875J. Down, Beckenham, Kent. 



Railway Station, ORriNOTON on S.K.R. 

 My dear Galton, I hear from George that you are going to write on inheritance and 

 thei-efore I think it worth telling you that Huxley does not at all believe in Balbiani's views 

 and statements. He says he published some years ago some strange facts and then went right 

 round and gave them all up. I send you Wedderburn's note and a pamphlet by him which will 

 amu.se you and which need not be returnee!. Yours very sincerely, Ch. Darwin. 



' The pencil crosses may still lie traced in the Royal Society copy of the Revue Scient^fique 

 1874, witness to the fact that great men are not always great enough to obey library regulations! 



