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DCP-LETT-4847

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 100
Summary:

Reports a monstrous pig that looks like an elephant. It was born of a pregnant sow which had been frightened by a circus elephant. He offers the monster, which died at birth, to any London museum.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4853

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
4 June [1865]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/12)
Summary:

Believes GM’s reported monstrosity is not rare. Does not believe it resulted from the effect of the imagination of the mother on her offspring.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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