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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct and 12 Nov 1859
Source of text:
DAR 47: 215–17
Summary:

The antlers of 800 deer of the glacial period have been found in a cave. They show great variety of form, but gradation from one to the other can be traced when all are laid out. Suggests CD study changes that have taken place in the species since glacial period.

Has ordered the wicked book [Origin] CD has been so long a-hatching.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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