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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
10 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 292, fol. 77)
Summary:

Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5)
Summary:

CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.

CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Henry Sayce
Date:
28 July 1877
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 63, fols. 51–2)
Summary:

Thinks "mum" comes from shutting the mouth repeatedly as a sign of wanting to eat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project