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From J. E. Gray   2 April 1871

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Sexual differences in sloths. J. G. Wagler article on sloths [Isis 24 (1831): 604–12].

Author:  John Edward Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 88: 95–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7652

From E. B. de Fonblanque   2 April 1871

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Encloses notes that illustrate apparent intelligent reasoning by a dog which tricked an adversary, and by an elephant peaceably enduring a painful operation.

Author:  Edward Barrington de Fonblanque
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 162: 140
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7653
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … make any such changes to the existing German edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 …
  • … number of small corrections & a few of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] …
  • … that the remainder be included in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he …
  • … possible use in a new American edition of Origin (see letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche …
  • … in a different part of the text, in Origin 4th ed., p. 402. 39.  p. 367. The original …