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To George Rolleston   5 September [1861]

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GR’s letter is a gold-mine.

Pleased to have Pierre Gratiolet’s comment on the embryology of greatly modified organs

and GR’s valuable cases of analogous variation.

Doubts craniologists, but recounts his father’s opinion that the shape of CD’s head was altered when he returned from the Beagle.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Rolleston
Date:  5 Sept [1861]
Classmark:  Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D12)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3245

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  • 1857 . Rolleston published two papers in the Natural History Review in 1861. The first, ‘On the affinities of the brain of the orang utang’ ( Rolleston 1861a ), was published in April. For CD’s opinion of the work, see the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, …
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