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From:
Gregory Beddome Thornbery
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 316
Summary:

Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 201
Summary:

Thanks CD for photograph – sends one in return,

questions CD on his religious views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 96–7
Summary:

On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;

instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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