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From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 331
Summary:

Raises two points on CD’s view, in Descent [2: 229], on how aquatic birds acquire white plumage.

Also remarks on effect of will in certain human modifications,

on colour-blindness in his children,

and on ability to move his ears.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 330
Summary:

Believes his letter of 17 Apr bears also on vol. 1 of Descent.

Ability to move ears is common in his family.

Similarity of foot of man to that of gorilla continues beyond foetal stage.

Invites CD to stay overnight if visiting the area.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 332
Summary:

Sends quotation from Thomas Moore’s Memoirs [ed. Lord John Russell, (1853–6)] about hereditary peculiarity in handwriting.

On colour-blindness in his family.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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