To George Busk 12 March [1871]
Summary
Discusses his blunder in "confounding the two foramina" [in the skull] of apes [in Descent].
Discusses views of George Rolleston, St George Mivart, and Huxley on the occurrence of the foramina.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Busk |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.387) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7574 |
To George Busk 2 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing a new edition of Origin [6th ed. (1872)] and asks GB for information on the gradations between the vibracula and avicularia of the Polyzoa and on what he bases his opinion concerning the homology of the avicularium with the zooid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Busk |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7921 |
To George Busk 13 September [1871]
Summary
CD plans to use notes provided by GB. [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 193.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Busk |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7937 |
