From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 200)
Summary:
It is not carpal or tarsal bones that are increased [in six-fingered men] but generally only the digits and metacarpals.
Pectoral fins of fish and sharks.
Asks THH to check P. M. Roget’s statement that there is a rudiment of a sixth digit in frogs.
[P.S. missing from original.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project