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From:
Darwin nee Wedgwood, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[winter 1877–8]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 102
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Richard William Griffiths
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 227
Summary:
A sheep-breeder friend has found that he can produce twins and triplets in his flock by "a sudden supply of improved feeding stuff" at time of conception. This would appear to remove the objection CD refers to in Descent that animals supplied with an excess of food become sterile.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 498
Summary:
Reprint of Origin will bring number to 19500 – so title-page may safely read "Twentieth Thousand".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project