Letter from Ch. Darwin [Charles Darwin] [to George Maw]

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Scope & content: Written from Down, Beckenham, Kent. Manuscript

He believes that the flexure in Maw’s dead animals results from the muscles being stronger on the left side, which is odd, and refers him to Linnaeus’ work on Canis familiaris; his son George [George Darwin], at Trinity College, Cambridge, once tested the difference in strength between each leg of a group of boys and he could procure his notes; he thanks Maw for sending a specimen of his monograph on Crocus [a work in progress at this time], which should arrive tomorrow

For a photocopy of a letter from George Maw to Charles Darwin written on 6 Nov 1880 see MAW/Z1/1-13. Written from Down, Beckenham, Kent. Manuscript

He believes that the flexure in Maw’s dead animals results from the muscles being stronger on the left side, which is odd, and refers him to Linnaeus’ work on Canis familiaris; his son George [George Darwin], at Trinity College, Cambridge, once tested the difference in strength between each leg of a group of boys and he could procure his notes; he thanks Maw for sending a specimen of his monograph on Crocus [a work in progress at this time], which should arrive tomorrow

For a photocopy of a letter from George Maw to Charles Darwin written on 6 Nov 1880 see MAW/Z1/1-13