From James Paget 16 March 1863

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4045,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4045

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Sends two [unidentified] papers on inheritance of medical malformations. Suggests that besides the inheritance of specific variations, the tendency to show variations in the same organ system (stomach, nervous, etc.) may also be inherited.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-4045
From: James Paget, 1st baronet
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: 16 Mar 1863
Sent from: London, Harewood Place, 1
Source of text: DAR 174: 5
Physical description: 4pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11.

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Paget, James

From James Paget 16 March 1863

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