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DCP-LETT-9705F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Keylock Rusden
Date:
[before 27 Mar 1875]
Source of text:
Ovens and Murray Advertiser , 27 March 1875, p. 5
Summary:

Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).

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DCP-LETT-9904

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 5
Summary:

Is preparing a paper on the umbilical cord ["On the anatomy of the umbilical cord", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 23 (1875): 498–501; 24 (1876): 417–40] of which he sends a preliminary note [missing]. Believes spiral growth of the umbilical cord is important evidence of the descent of man; speculates on spiral growth in general.

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