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To Edward Bartlett   [24] September [1871]

Summary

Thanks for goose specimens.

Asks whether Egyptian goose throws water out of side of beak. Can it tear herbage like the domestic goose?

[Mistakenly dated 16 Sept by CD.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Bartlett
Date:  [24] Sept [1871]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7965

To E. B. Tylor   24 September [1871]

Summary

CD most interested by Primitive culture [1871]. Impressed by EBT’s account of development of religious beliefs and of the survival of old customs. Hopes EBT will treat morals.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:  24 Sept [1871]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 50254: 41–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7966

From H. Ramu   24 September 1871

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Sends CD a sketch of goat with maxillary appendages and notes the dimensions of the structures.

Author:  H Ramu
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Sept 1871
Classmark:  DAR 99: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7967
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