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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 45: 29, DAR 83: 156
Summary:

Discusses apes and their relationships to each other. Writes particularly of the gibbon, its structure and well-developed legs giving it the ability to walk without using its hands.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 136, DAR 160: 213
Summary:

Discusses the human foot and its abnormalities; notes an example of syndactylism.

Gives his observations on sexual differences in coloration of terns and ostriches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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