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DCP-LETT-11290

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
27 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.529)
Summary:

Asks for the wing of a goose said to have transmitted effects of an injury by hereditary descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11475

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
14 Apr 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.535)
Summary:

Encloses report by W. H. Flower on goose’s wing.

Asks RAB to obtain wings from young birds and broken wing from old one. Asks about details of injury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11589

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.540)
Summary:

Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11599F

From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Smithsonian Institution
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (B/D25.20)
Summary:

Requests that a box of specimen goose wings for CD be forwarded by the Institution to [W. H.] Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons. The wings bear on the transmission of the effects of injury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11614

From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.542)
Summary:

Explains difficulties in supplying wings of geese. Describes injury of old gander that sired the abnormal geese.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11780

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
9 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.554)
Summary:

Says deformity of wings of geese is not related to injury to gander. Forwards a report on the birds [11717].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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