My dear Paget
Very many thanks for your note.2 One is led at once to suspect reversion, though that is an easy & tempting to trap to fall into. Your sketch has called up a fairly vivid recollection in my mind of a gentleman (M.P. for Shropshire) with whom I used as a boy often to shoot, & who had ears such as you describe.—3 I must look to the ears of our brethren in the Zool. Gardens.—
Yours very sincerely | Ch Darwin
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