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Two or three days ago I had another letter from Germany from a good naturalist, Dr.Kollmann (274/3.

Dr.Kollmann was Secretary of the Anthropologische Gesellschaft of Munich, in which Society took place the discussion referred to in "Variation of Animals and Plants," I., 459, as originating Darwin's doubts on the whole question.

The fresh evidence adduced by Kollmann as to the normal occurrence of a rudimentary sixth digit in Batrachians is Borus' paper, "Die sechste Zehe der Anuren" in "Morpholog.

Jahrbuch," Bd.

I., page 435.


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