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From G. H. Darwin   [after 28 March 1876]

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Personal news – is unwell.

Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 28 Mar 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10242

From Robert Bell   28 March 1876

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Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.

Author:  Robert Bell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Mar 1876
Classmark:  DAR 160: 127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10432

To Axel Blytt   28 March 1876

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Thanks AB for his paper on the Norwegian flora ["Forsög til en Theori om Invandringen af Norges Flora", Nyt Mag. Naturvidensk. 21 (1876): 279–362]. Appears to CD to be the most important contribution towards understanding the present distribution of plants since Edward Forbes’s essay on the effects of the glacial period ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. Engl. & Wales 1 (1846): 336–432].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Axel Gudbrand (Axel) Blytt
Date:  28 Mar 1876
Classmark:  Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10433

To Lawson Tait   28 March 1876

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James Paget’s scepticism about regrowth of digits. Suggests RLT experiment with amputation of digits, both extra and normal, of kittens and fowls. Fears they will fail to regrow, but, if regrowth is proved, it will be an important discovery.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  28 Mar 1876
Classmark:  Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10434

From F. J. Cohn   28 March 1876

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Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.

Author:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Mar 1876
Classmark:  DAR 161: 201
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10435
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