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To Felix von Luschan   5 May 1873

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

May 5. 1873

Dear Sir

I thank you for your very obliging note & the present of your essays & the Photographs.1 The prominence of the superciliary ridge is certainly most remarkable; but in truth I am too ignorant on osteological points, for my opinion to be of any value, & therefore will not venture on any remarks.2

With my renewed thanks, I remain Dear Sir with my respect— yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
Luschan’s note, essays, and photographs have not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL. By May 1873, Luschan had published three essays on human fossils found in central Europe (Luschan 1872a, 1872b, and 1873).
2
The superciliary ridge is a prominence of the frontal bone above the eye sockets. Luschan, a student of medicine in Vienna and Paris, was particularly interested in craniology.

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