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From:

George Edward Dobson

To:

Charles Robert Darwin

Date:

23 May 1874

Source of text:

DAR 162: 192

Summary:

Sends his paper ["On secondary sexual characters in the Cheiroptera", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 241–52]

and some of his observations of the gecko, which appear to contradict CD’s opinion.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

George Edward Dobson

Date:

25 May [1874]

Source of text:

American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)

Summary:

Thanks for note and paper ["Secondary sexual characters in Cheiroptera", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 241–52].

Has corrected error in new edition of Descent [1874].

Sees nothing strange in geckos inhabiting frost-clad land and having no claws.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project