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DCP-LETT-8027

From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 57
Summary:

Has read in papers about CD’s forthcoming work [Expression]; sends anecdote about a dog visiting a dentist for relief of a toothache – thus showing "moral courage".

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DCP-LETT-8028

From:
Henry Bowman Brady
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 278
Summary:

Explains further N. S. Shaler’s view [see 8015] on rattlesnake habits as consistent with natural selection: the rattle attracts rather than alarms its prey.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8029

From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 24
Summary:

Sends specimen of Prion.

Discusses beaks of flamingo and other birds.

Comments on function of lamellae.

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