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From H. B. Dobell   5 March 1863

Summary

At CD’s request HBD has traced the quotation; it is on regeneration from Charles White in W. B. Carpenter’s Comparative physiology (1854), p. 480.

Is gratified that CD thinks some of the arguments in his book [Lectures on the germs of disease (1861)] are satisfactory.

Author:  Horace Benge Dobell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Mar 1863
Classmark:  DAR 162: 188
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4027

From H. B. Dobell   20 April 1863

Summary

Sends CD a form he has devised of a proper genealogical table of three or four generations of the families of medical cases, so that hereditary transmission may be more accurately and fully recorded.

Author:  Horace Benge Dobell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 162: 189
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4115

From H. B. Dobell   12 May 1863

Summary

Sends copy of the table, which now embodies CD’s suggestions [see 4117].

Gives instances of persons born with two thumbs and comments on hereditary factor.

Author:  Horace Benge Dobell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 May 1863
Classmark:  Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with G 395, Dobell 1862)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4158A

From Horace Benge Dobell   15 July 1864

Summary

Suggests man’s original mode of walking and running is similar to that of quadrupeds.

He also suggests CD answer critics who say no new species has ever been unequivocally traced to its origins, by pointing out that there is no unequivocal account of the origin of surnames.

Author:  Horace Benge Dobell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 162: 190
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4568

From H. B. Dobell   6 October 1871

Summary

Asks CD’s opinion of his suggestion that a distinctive mark of species may be the duration of pregnancy, incubation, or germination.

Author:  Horace Benge Dobell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Oct 1871
Classmark:  DAR 162: 191
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7989
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