From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 [June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 3 (EH 88206450)
Summary:
Smallpox in the village. Death of Joseph Parslow’s son.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Smallpox in the village. Death of Joseph Parslow’s son.
Would like to compare the length of the wings of non-migratory and migratory swallows.
Wonders if EWVH could show him skins of Columba livia.