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DCP-LETT-7174

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 59
Summary:

Aggressive behaviour of dogs and horses.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7175

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A15–16
Summary:

Rabbits still running true; hopes to increase alien blood to 30%.

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DCP-LETT-7176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[27 Apr 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A16v
Summary:

Is much obliged for information [about rabbits?].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7177

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 292
Summary:

Will send deerhound puppy.

Is critical of Herbert Spencer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7257

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet
Date:
[Apr or May 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 86
Summary:

Discusses the reasons for inserting questions on consanguineous marriages in the forthcoming Census.

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DCP-LETT-7718A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
21 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:

On amount of modification and lines of descent in determining the position in man.

Reference to StGJM’s article "On the appendicular skeleton of the primates" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. [157 (1867): 299–430],

and his [and James Murie’s] article on lemurs ["On the anatomy of Lemuroidea"] Trans. Zool. Soc. [7 (1872): 1–114].

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