From:
Clinton Hart Merriam
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 159
Summary:
Sends the 1872 Report of the U. S. Geological Survey of the Territories, for which he was zoologist.
Most American naturalists support CD. His study of ornithology convinced him.
Lepus bairdii has a distribution limited to Yellowstone Lake.
No doubt CD knows of O. C. Marsh’s horse fossils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project