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To H. B. Dobell   6 March [1863]1

Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E.

March 6

My dear Sir

I am extremely much obliged to you for your great kindness and all the large amount of trouble which you have taken to oblige me.2 Your information is sufficient: I feared that Dr. C. might not have given whole case.3

With very sincere thanks | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from H. B. Dobell, 5 March 1863.
3
See letter from H. B. Dobell, 5 March 1863 and n. 2. In Variation 2: 14 n., CD cited Carpenter 1854 in his discussion of this case of the regeneration of amputated supernumerary digits. There is a copy of Carpenter 1854 in the Darwin Library–CUL, in which the relevant passage is annotated (see Marginalia 1: 154–8).

Bibliography

Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1854. Principles of comparative physiology. 4th edition. London: John Churchill.

Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.

Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.

Summary

Thanks for information [on regeneration quotation].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-4030
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Horace Benge Dobell
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 143: 389
Physical description
C 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4030,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4030.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11

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