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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 103–4
Summary:

Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Michels
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 177
Summary:

Describes a post-mortem dissection of a chimpanzee’s brain. The several doctors who observed it were struck by its resemblance to the human brain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project