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 |