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DCP-LETT-5083

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 May [1866?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.

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DCP-LETT-5170

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.

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