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From Francis Galton   22 February 1877

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Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.

Author:  Francis Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Feb 1877
Classmark:  DAR 105: A97–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10859

From John Gibbs   22 February 1877

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Thanks CD for his advice. No doubt one may be misled by a few experiments in matters on which many forces come into play. Describes his plans to observe the flowering of 23 plants of Lychnis gilhago raised from a single capsule.

Author:  John Gibbs
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Feb 1877
Classmark:  DAR 165: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10860