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To William Preyer 8 July 1877
Summary
Discusses inheritance.
Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Date: | 8 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 268–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11042 |
From William Preyer 6 July 1877
Summary
Asks for CD’s "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200]. He has made observations on new-born children and mammals to determine what behaviour is inherited and what acquired.
| Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11038 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Preyer, William | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Preyer, William | (1) |
