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To Hermann Hoffmann   20 April [1871]

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Obliged for letter about dog.

Comments on HH’s article ["Zur Geschlechtsbestimmung", Bot. Ztg. 29 (1871): 81–9, 97–109].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
Date:  20 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 145: 133
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7702

From H. M. Westropp   20 April [1871]

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Anecdote of bear reasoning [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 76].

Similarity of forms of ornamentation and implements in widely separate races and ages [Descent 1: 233].

Author:  Hodder Michael Westropp
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 90: 38–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7703