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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
31 July [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 65)
Summary:

Has received the duck and bantam.

Anxious to get as many facts as possible on crossbreeding of dogs.

Reports on seeds that have germinated after 100 days immersion [in salt water].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
31 July [1855]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (28 September 2004)
Summary:

Mentions experiments on plants involving coloured glass. Encloses correspondence from glass maker and asks advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 [July 1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.621)
Summary:

CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.

Thanks for Lepidoptera book.

Invites JL to dinner.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project