Darwin, C. R. to Quatrefages de Bréau, J. L. A. de
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Is sending photographs of the niata skull [requested in 4082]. W. H. Flower reports that he could have a cast made for £3.3s.0d.
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Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 14
Dear Sir
I send by this Post two Photographs (by Book Post) of the nãta Skull. The delay in getting them made was caused by the
Photographer.— M
With sincere respect | Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
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See letter from Armand de Quatrefages, [28 March --] 11 April 1863. - +
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See letter from W. H. Flower, 9 May 1863, and letter to W. H. Flower, 12 May [1863]. CD refers to the controversy that followed the publication of Owen 1857, in which Richard Owen argued that humans should be classified as a distinct sub-class of mammals (`Archencephela'), because their brain anatomy differed markedly from that of apes. William Henry Flower showed that the anatomical criteria selected by Owen did not provide a reliable basis for a taxonomic distinction between humans and simians (Flower 1862). On Flower's contribution to the brain controversy, see Rupke 1994, p. 292, and L. G. Wilson 1996b, p. 201.