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From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
2 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 235
Summary:

Asks Lyell to put a question to CD: "To what far distant origin can the configuration of the skin surface [the symmetrical but different curves] at the last points of the fingers and toes be traced?"

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5–8 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 190–2
Summary:

Mammae in human males.

The role of natural selection in the development of beards and manes of animals.

Hereditary pointing in setters.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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