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To Hubert Airy   5 April [1871]

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Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hubert Airy
Date:  5 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7659
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … it appears also that there are clear traces    Page 405, par. 1, line 18, insert after …
  • … also occurs in Origin 4th ed., p. 443. 42.  p. 405. This passage, with further additions, …

Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'

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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…

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  • … positive ([Brewster] 1838; see also Manier 1978, pp. 40–5) which Darwin read in August 1838 …