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DCP-LETT-11446

From:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 252
Summary:

Describes hereditary defect in ear muscle.

Discusses influence of wet nurse on infant.

Describes talking starlings.

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DCP-LETT-11451

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
Date:
28 Mar 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.532)
Summary:

Does not believe that nature of milk can affect character of child.

Facts about starling very curious, but CD now absorbed by vegetable physiology. Not likely to attend to animal minds again.

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