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From George Rolleston 18 August 1876
Summary
Sends three of his anthropological papers.
CD understates his case when he says the mandibular wattle of the "Irish greyhound pig" has no analogue or homologue.
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10581 |
From George Rolleston 26 December 1876
Summary
Has sent Balfour’s certificate on to Ray Lankester, and encloses a certificate for Moseley for CD to sign.
Calls attention to a paper by Emil Bessels on Eskimos, which he extracts [see 10737].
CD has cited GR for material that is not his in Variation, 2d ed., 1: 469, on transmission of mutilation.
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10734 |
From George Rolleston 29 December 1876
Summary
Studying anatomy of the Irish pig.
Emil Bessels’ paper is in Archiv für Anthropologie 8 (1875): 107. He connects a band of poor Eskimos encountered at Smith’s Sound with glacial man.
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10737 |
