To ? 18 July [1873?]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
July 18th
Dear Sir
I am sorry to say that I am not anatomist enough to say whether your power is very unusual, but I believe it to be so.— The capacity of moving the scalp is not very infrequent, except to the extreme degree referred to by me; but the remarkable part of that case was the inheritance of the faculty.2
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
Comments on ability of recipient to move his scalp.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8982
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.430)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8982,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8982.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
