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From St George Jackson Mivart   6 April 1868

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Has asked gentlemen who administer chloroform to make observations [on expression?] for CD.

Author:  St George Jackson Mivart
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Apr 1868
Classmark:  DAR 171: 184
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6098

From St G. J. Mivart   20 May 1868

Summary

Answers CD’s queries on sexual characters and differences among the Urodela.

Is interested in the relationship of pectoral and pelvic limbs in man and apes and has looked at reptiles and amphibians to find traces of the earlier conditions of the limbs.

Asks whether CD knows any instances of deformities or pathological conditions occurring simultaneously in both sets of limbs.

Author:  St George Jackson Mivart
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 May 1868
Classmark:  DAR 171: 185
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6193
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