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DCP-LETT-10581

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 211
Summary:

Sends three of his anthropological papers.

CD understates his case when he says the mandibular wattle of the "Irish greyhound pig" has no analogue or homologue.

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DCP-LETT-10582F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
24 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
George family (private collection) [but the images are from a facsimile DAR 185: 124]
Summary:

Thanks GR for his notes and essays [see 10581].

Similar appendages to those GR mentions [see 10581] appear on the necks of goats, but the idea of reversion to a common progenitor of goats and pigs "stumps" CD.

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