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From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.2: 198
Summary:

Thanks for note on his Macrauchenia paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 7 (1861): 441–3].

Asks for references to descriptions of certain bones found in South America.

Lists four fossil New World monkeys; is CD aware of any others?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 199
Summary:

Has just received copy of CD’s work [Descent].

Can corroborate artificial compression of skull practised by Indians.

May have to modify his earlier published opinions on CD’s views.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 200
Summary:

Points to CD’s favourable notice of his anthropological work;

details current financial difficulties and work efforts. Asks to borrow £5.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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