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DCP-LETT-9161

From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses hereditary character of hypermetropia. Notes views of F. C. Donders on the subject.

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DCP-LETT-9162

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
27 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 3
Summary:

"As the disease hypermetropia is not very rare, & as it is known to be hereditary, I will not give the case (about which I was very doubtful) & am glad to decide in the negative".

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