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To G. B. Ercolani   3 March 1877

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

March 3, 77

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged for your great kindness in having sent me your essay on the placenta, a subject on which it is well known that you have worked with great success.1

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
Ercolani had sent his essay ‘Sull’unità del tipo anatomico della placenta nei mammiferi e nell’umana specie, e sull’unita fisiologica della nutrizione dei feti in tutti i vertebrati’ (On the unity of anatomical type in the placenta in mammals and the human species and on the physiological unity in the nutrition of foetuses in all vertebrates; Ercolani 1877).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10876,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10876