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From Edward Blyth   [3 April 1868]

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Discusses apes and their relationships to each other. Writes particularly of the gibbon, its structure and well-developed legs giving it the ability to walk without using its hands.

Author:  Edward Blyth
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [3 Apr 1868]
Classmark:  DAR 45: 29, DAR 83: 156
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6089

From Edward Blyth   5 April 1868

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Discusses the human foot and its abnormalities; notes an example of syndactylism.

Gives his observations on sexual differences in coloration of terns and ostriches.

Author:  Edward Blyth
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Apr 1868
Classmark:  DAR 84.1: 136, DAR 160: 213
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6094
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