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From:
John Michels
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 175
Summary:

Sends drawings of atypical Geranium and honeysuckle pollen-grains. Would they produce variation in seedlings?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Michels
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 176
Summary:

Sends a drawing [missing] of alleged fossil man found in Colorado. JM is certain it is a hoax perpetrated by P. T. Barnum. It was designed to conform to CD’s well-known views of man’s ancestor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Michels
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 177
Summary:

Describes a post-mortem dissection of a chimpanzee’s brain. The several doctors who observed it were struck by its resemblance to the human brain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project