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From:
Darwin, Francis
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[before 4 January 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 793
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.
The Zoological Garden has only one old adult male of Limulus. When there were females, eggs were never observed.
Encloses a separate letter [formerly 7071] about AD’s scheme [for a zoological station].
Suggests AD be cautious [in his work]. "Caution is almost the soul of science."