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From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 174: 70
Summary:

Asks for CD’s "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200]. He has made observations on new-born children and mammals to determine what behaviour is inherited and what acquired.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
8 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 268–9
Summary:

Discusses inheritance.

Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?

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Darwin Correspondence Project