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DCP-LETT-12432

From:
Hermann Welcker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 88
Summary:

Sends publications.

Discusses comparative anatomy and evolutionary implications of several ligaments.

Thinks effects of Chinese foot-binding are inherited.

Criticises article on Darwinism in Brockhaus’ Lexikon.

Mentions forthcoming book on mammalian vertebrae.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12442G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Welcker
Date:
30 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Universitätsarchiv (Rep. 29, Nr. 715)
Summary:

Thanks for letter of 18th January 1880 and for present of Essays. Interested in Welcker’s investigation of the 'ligamentum teres', and his comment on the feet of the Chinese.

Will esteem it an honour if Welcker dedicates his next book to him.

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