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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
Date:
19 Dec 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.433)
Summary:

Discusses speech of parrots and starling. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 85 n.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
Date:
28 Mar 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.532)
Summary:

Does not believe that nature of milk can affect character of child.

Facts about starling very curious, but CD now absorbed by vegetable physiology. Not likely to attend to animal minds again.

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