Robert Chambers, AD’s father, spoke of CD’s book [Descent?] during his last hours of life.
CD’s respect for Chambers, to whose scientific work he had not done justice.
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Robert Chambers, AD’s father, spoke of CD’s book [Descent?] during his last hours of life.
CD’s respect for Chambers, to whose scientific work he had not done justice.
Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.
CD sends his thanks for her intercession with her sister [Alice Chambers]. The extract from her father’s [Robert Chambers] diary will be sufficient.
He forwards the requested autograph.
The question is whether additional digits possess power of regrowth beyond the ordinary. James Paget has convinced CD that they do not. CD must alter what he has published. [See Variation, 2d. ed., 2: 459.]