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From David Wedderburn   6 April 1871

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Sexual selection in deer.

Assemblies of black cocks.

Nests of spotted flycatcher.

Author:  David Wedderburn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 88: 163, 167–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7660

From John Wood   6 April 1871

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Corrects CD on his assertion that the platysma myoides "cannot voluntarily be brought into action" [Descent 1: 19].

Author:  John Wood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 145–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7661

To John Le Couteur   6 April [1871]

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Is honoured to hear from JLC and would welcome the communication of any facts that he cares to send him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Le Couteur
Date:  6 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 106
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7661A
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