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DCP-LETT-5362

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 2)
Summary:

Requests information about rudimentary muscles and organs in man. Asks about marrow of os coccyx, and about testes and ovaria in early embryos of both sexes.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
1 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 3)
Summary:

Thanks for information about rudimentary organs. Asks about rudimentary character of human hair and panniculus carnosus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5582F

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1867
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

Curious to read what CD will say on man and his races.

Has CD seen Ludwig Rütimeyer’s Ueber die Herkunft unserer Thierwelt (Rütimeyer 1867c)?

Discusses J. F. W. Herschel’s theory of active volcanoes existing at the junction of continents and the sea.

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