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From:
Balfour, G. W.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[27 March 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 314
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;
instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.
Thanks CD for photograph – sends one in return,
questions CD on his religious views.
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Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.