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From E. W. Black   13 August 1877

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Encloses specimens of milk-weed with trapped insects. Indian hemp catches insects in the same way but with less success.

Author:  Evans Willson Black
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Aug 1877
Classmark:  DAR 160: 190
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11104

From G. J. Romanes   13 August 1877

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Thanks for CD’s comments on ["Evolution of nerves"]. Admits that he may have "been too keen in my scent after nerves".

Notes effect of reversing direction of current in muscular tissue.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Aug 1877
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 63
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11105