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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[13 February 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 37
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Gives notice of returning books by a carrier and thanks for assistance.
Asks whether Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville’s Ostéographie (1839–64) includes rabbits or hares.
Is obliged for his note and statement on the necessity of pegs at the ends of the lines of the Great Pyramid; comments on this. Has seen Augustus De Morgan and explained his theories. Urges the need for a permanent practical geometrical gallery.