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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

James Orton

Date:

24 Feb [1870]

Source of text:

University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections

Summary:

Thanks JO for his The Andes and the Amazon.

Is sorry he has failed to get any information on the horse’s tooth.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

James Orton

To:

Charles Robert Darwin

Date:

31 Mar 1870

Source of text:

DAR 173: 39

Summary:

JO found fossil shells in the Amazon Valley, which discredits Agassiz’s claim of a glacial origin.

Would like Huxley’s opinion of the fossil horse’s tooth from Quito.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project