From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.318)
Summary:
Has not seen K. E. von Baer’s paper ["Über Papuas und Alfuren", Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg (Sci. Nat.) 8 (1859): 269–346], but has read extract.
Knew of case of hairy and toothless family through John Crawfurd, Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India [2d ed. (1834)].
Working on causes of variability.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project