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From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Smithsonian Institution
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (B/D25.20)
Summary:

Requests that a box of specimen goose wings for CD be forwarded by the Institution to [W. H.] Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons. The wings bear on the transmission of the effects of injury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.542)
Summary:

Explains difficulties in supplying wings of geese. Describes injury of old gander that sired the abnormal geese.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 5
Summary:

Mentions Mastodon remains that he has seen.

Praises CD and his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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