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DCP-LETT-7574

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
12 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.387)
Summary:

Discusses his blunder in "confounding the two foramina" [in the skull] of apes [in Descent].

Discusses views of George Rolleston, St George Mivart, and Huxley on the occurrence of the foramina.

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DCP-LETT-7921

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
2 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 88
Summary:

Is preparing a new edition of Origin [6th ed. (1872)] and asks GB for information on the gradations between the vibracula and avicularia of the Polyzoa and on what he bases his opinion concerning the homology of the avicularium with the zooid.

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DCP-LETT-7937

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
13 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

CD plans to use notes provided by GB. [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 193.]

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