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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
9 July [1871]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers)
Summary:

Does not think WRG’s theory [about ridges of skin on palm and finger-ends?] will hold.

Does not believe the beard in monkeys and goats could be protective like the lion’s mane.

Thanks him for fact about setters.

Is perplexed about the reported milk secretion in pubescent boys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project