ABSTRACT
After the discussion with Charles Darwin, Francis Galton commenced his inquiry into the nature of inheritance of coat color in rabbits. He no doubt felt excited and honored to be working together with his famous cousin on such an important project. He started with three white bucks, which were bled and then transfused with blood from the common black, lop-eared rabbit. He initially worked up the number of transfused rabbits to 32. The experiments were thorough and accidents rarely occurred. Galton kept detailed records of all the experiments in his laboratory notebooks. He kept Darwin fully informed of all the experiments that seemed to corroborate Darwin's ideas; and eight of the rabbits were sent to Down House for Darwin to participate in the experiments. Galton handed over the laboratory notebooks for Darwin to inspect. Galton perhaps thought that Darwin was just trying to ignore the evidence to save his hypothesis.
