From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 21–7
Summary:
Clarification of the supra-condyloid foramen in humans and animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 29–30
Summary:
The presence of the inter-condyloid perforation in man no more indicates his simian relations than it does his relations to numerous other animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
