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From William Pollard Pattison 4 December 1865
Summary
An actuary wants to know whether the probability that a woman of English–Indian parentage will have a child after age 35 is the same as for a European woman.
| Author: | William Pollard Pattison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4946 |
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- … 10), CD inquired about ‘ individual fowls or pigeons which are sterile together’, adding that this was a ‘parallel case to those recorded of a man not impotent long living with a woman who remained childless; the husband died & the woman married again & had plenty of children’. CD suggested that in such cases the man and woman were ‘dissimilar in their sexual organisation’. See also Correspondence vol. 12, …
