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From Henry Holland   26 March [1862]

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Gives CD advice on the illness of one of his sons [presumably Horace].

Author:  Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Mar [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 166.2: 241
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3485

From J. D. Hooker   [after 26 March 1862?]

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Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.

In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 26 Mar 1862?]
Classmark:  DAR 47: 214
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3486