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From:
Horace Benge Dobell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 162: 188
Summary:

At CD’s request HBD has traced the quotation; it is on regeneration from Charles White in W. B. Carpenter’s Comparative physiology (1854), p. 480.

Is gratified that CD thinks some of the arguments in his book [Lectures on the germs of disease (1861)] are satisfactory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Horace Benge Dobell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 162: 189
Summary:

Sends CD a form he has devised of a proper genealogical table of three or four generations of the families of medical cases, so that hereditary transmission may be more accurately and fully recorded.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Horace Benge Dobell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1863
Source of text:
Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with G 395, Dobell 1862)
Summary:

Sends copy of the table, which now embodies CD’s suggestions [see 4117].

Gives instances of persons born with two thumbs and comments on hereditary factor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Horace Benge Dobell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 162: 190
Summary:

Suggests man’s original mode of walking and running is similar to that of quadrupeds.

He also suggests CD answer critics who say no new species has ever been unequivocally traced to its origins, by pointing out that there is no unequivocal account of the origin of surnames.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Horace Benge Dobell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 191
Summary:

Asks CD’s opinion of his suggestion that a distinctive mark of species may be the duration of pregnancy, incubation, or germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project