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To W. H. Flower   13 April [1878]1

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

April 13th

My dear Flower

One line to thank you much for your interesting note, which I will forward to Mr Blair, & ask him whether he can obtain several other specimens of wings in spirits, & I will offer to pay for them, for the case seems, from what you say, worth investigating.2

Yours sincerely & obliged | Ch. Darwin.

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. H. Flower, 12 April 1878.
2
In his letter of 12 April 1878, Flower suggested that Reuben Almond Blair send more examples of malformed goose wings; he thought that the malformation was not due to inheritance of the original injury, but that the original injury might have caused some disturbance in the nerves of the offspring.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11474,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11474