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From:
William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 48
Summary:

Discusses feather as case of evolutionary atavism.

Will soon publish on siliceous sponges

and the skin of caterpillars.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 49
Summary:

Doubts ostrich descended from reptiles. Its ancestors true birds. Of course, all birds descended from reptiles. Compares foetus of birds to that of reptiles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 109: A88–9
Summary:

Informs CD of two distinct forms of Plantago lanceolata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 47
Summary:

WM converted to belief in evolution by experience of museum work.

Describes protective coloration of coots’ eggs.

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Darwin Correspondence Project