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From Lawson Tait   31 December [1877]

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Speculation on the process by which tails have been lost; believes he has evidence from man that it is related to spina bifida.

Author:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Dec [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11297

From F. J. Cohn   31 December 1877

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Sends details of H. H. R. Koch’s work on bacteria, including first photographs.

J. S. Burdon Sanderson’s and Koch’s collaboration on systemic fever.

Thinks movement of Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus filaments is an artifact.

Author:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Dec 1877
Classmark:  DAR 161: 205
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11298

From E. A. Greaves to Francis Darwin   31 December 1877

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Accepts CD’s offer of £50 for portrait of Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  31 Dec 1877
Classmark:  DAR 165: 219
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11299

To the Down Friendly Society   31 December [1877?]

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Reports, as treasurer, on the financial position of the Club.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Down Friendly Society
Date:  31 Dec [1877?]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11300
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1.17 Alphonse Legros drawing

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< Back to Introduction Alphonse Legros’s drawing of Darwin in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of three likenesses of him by this artist in different media, the others being a drypoint engraving and a medallion. Only the medallion is dateable, to 1881:…

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