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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Edward Dobson
Date:
25 May [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks for note and paper ["Secondary sexual characters in Cheiroptera", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 241–52].

Has corrected error in new edition of Descent [1874].

Sees nothing strange in geckos inhabiting frost-clad land and having no claws.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Edward Dobson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 192
Summary:

Sends his paper ["On secondary sexual characters in the Cheiroptera", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 241–52]

and some of his observations of the gecko, which appear to contradict CD’s opinion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project