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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 11
Summary:

Gives CD some information on wills.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 21
Summary:

Discusses legal matters; CD’s will and setting up trusts for Henrietta Darwin’s forthcoming marriage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Grove
Date:
17 July [1871]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

The cat exhibition might provide information on unusual breeds of cats and their inheritance.

Expresses interest in deafness of white, blue-eyed cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [July] 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 173–4
Summary:

Sends Field with an account of the cat show; examples of cats with three extra toes.

Sexual preference of a blue turbit.

CD did not return skull of the horned cock figured in Variation [1: 265].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
17 July [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Wishes to republish CW’s review as pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Two sons will visit America. Hopes they may call on CW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project