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From:
William Rathbone Greg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 149–50
Summary:

Quotes authority on the decline in height of French army recruits.

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From:
William Rathbone Greg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 127–30
Summary:

Comments on various points in Descent: proportion of sexes, moral sentiments in animals, etc. Encloses "packet of data" [missing].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Rathbone Greg
Date:
21 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 348
Summary:

Comments on WRG’s MS on ratio of the sexes at birth.

Offers to send J. M. A. Thury’s paper ["Loi de production des sexes", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 18 (1863): 91–8].

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From:
William Rathbone Greg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 225
Summary:

Thanks CD for thinking of his speculation.

Has made a note of the paper mentioned by CD.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Rathbone Greg
Date:
31 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.557)
Summary:

Discusses a chapter on design, written by WRG’s son [Percy Greg, The devil’s advocate (1878)]. Comments on the younger Greg’s criticisms of natural selection and evolution.

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Darwin Correspondence Project