From:
Charles Loring Brace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 272
Summary:
Letter of introduction to CD for CLB’s friend Robert S. Rowley.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Letter of introduction to CD for CLB’s friend Robert S. Rowley.
Distribution of plants.
Removal of posterior molars a common dental practice in America [see Descent 1: 27].
Reports that the ability to move ears is common among the Sioux.
Discussion of, and thanks for, CLB’s new work, Races of the Old World [1863]. Special interest in p. 388 on colour and constitution; CD mentions questions sent previous year to surgeons serving in tropical countries regarding diseases and colour of hair and skin.
Comments on Brace’s work [The dangerous classes of New York (1872)].