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From R. H. Blair   16 March 1871

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Will be pleased to collect information on the blind for CD when time allows. Generally very few (about one quarter) of blind people entering institutions are born blind.

Author:  Robert Hugh Blair
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 160: 195
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7590

From George Busk   16 March 1871

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The presence of the inter-condyloid perforation in man no more indicates his simian relations than it does his relations to numerous other animals.

Author:  George Busk
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 29–30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7591