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DCP-LETT-11069

From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 24
Summary:

Asks for details on CD’s Descent references to female infanticide.

JFM’s work on the laws of incest finds strong evidence for man’s relation to animals.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11068

From:
Worthington George Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 201
Summary:

Reports a fossil fungus, complete with fossil zoospores, within the vascular bundles of a Lepidodendron from the Coal Measures. The genus is Pythium and it appears no different from living species.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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