From:
Philip Brookes Mason
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 72–3
Summary:
More details on children with hairy backs;
reasons for greater mortality rate of male children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Brookes Mason
Date:
24 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Interested in occurrence of hair on backs of weakly children. Asks PBM if he would report particulars of any case he observes during next 6–12 months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Brookes Mason
Date:
31 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.391)
Summary:
Thanks him for information on children with hairy backs.
Discusses paper by J. M. Duncan on the relative weights of male and female infants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project