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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996)
Summary:

James Paget’s scepticism about regrowth of digits. Suggests RLT experiment with amputation of digits, both extra and normal, of kittens and fowls. Fears they will fail to regrow, but, if regrowth is proved, it will be an important discovery.

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Darwin Correspondence Project