From Edward Blyth [3 April 1868]
Summary
Discusses apes and their relationships to each other. Writes particularly of the gibbon, its structure and well-developed legs giving it the ability to walk without using its hands.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 45: 29, DAR 83: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6089 |
To Edward Blyth 4 April [1868]
Summary
Glad to hear about colours of Hylobates.
Cannot find any statement about which digits in man are most subject to syndactylism in Isidore Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire]’s Histoire des anomalies [1832–7].
Asks questions concerned with seasonal and sexual changes in plumage of various bird species.
Does male woodpecker share in incubation?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | 4 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6091 |
From Edward Blyth 5 April 1868
Summary
Discusses the human foot and its abnormalities; notes an example of syndactylism.
Gives his observations on sexual differences in coloration of terns and ostriches.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 136, DAR 160: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6094 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (3) |