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Darwin Correspondence Project

To G. H. Darwin   21 October [1876]1

Oct. 21

My dear G.

See Nature of yesterday p. 553 where Mr George Darwin is “energetically” contradicted by a Russian Doctor in respect to deaf mutes not being closely interrelated2

C. D.

Footnotes

The year is established by the reference to the 19 October 1876 issue of Nature (see n. 2, below).
The 19 October 1876 issue of Nature, p. 553, reported a meeting of Russian naturalists in Warsaw at which the director of the Warsaw Institute for Deaf-Mutes and the Blind (Jan Papłoński), asserted that marriage between near relations was a leading cause of deaf-muteness, thus challenging George Howard Darwin’s conclusion that marriage between first cousins did not increase the likelihood of offspring contracting various hereditary diseases (see G. H. Darwin 1875).

Summary

Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10647
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
George Howard Darwin
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 210.1: 57
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10647,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10647.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24

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