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To H. M. Westropp   7 November [1871]

[Leith Hill Place | Surrey]

Pray accept my thanks for your kind present of your two Papers.—1

C. Darwin

Down. Nov. 7th

Footnotes

Westropp may have sent two articles on comparative ethnography that he mentioned in his letter of 20 April [1871] (Westropp 1866 and 1871); the papers were cited by CD in Descent 2d ed.

Bibliography

Descent 2d ed.: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874.

Westropp, Hodder Michael. 1866. On the analogous forms of implements among early and primitive races. Memoirs read before the Anthropological Society of London 2 (1865–6): 288–93.

Westropp, Hodder Michael. 1871. On the analogies and coincidences among unconnected nations. [Read 19 June 1871.] Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 1 (1872): 221–6.

Summary

"Please accept my thanks for your kind present of your two Papers."

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8055A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8055A.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19

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