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DCP-LETT-10150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
2 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/68)
Summary:

Thanks for GR’s "Address" [see 10141].

Wishes he had not quoted Bagehot’s remark [in Descent 1: 239] about decrease in savage populations. Interest in subject.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10582F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
24 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
George family (private collection) [but the images are from a facsimile DAR 185: 124]
Summary:

Thanks GR for his notes and essays [see 10581].

Similar appendages to those GR mentions [see 10581] appear on the necks of goats, but the idea of reversion to a common progenitor of goats and pigs "stumps" CD.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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