From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 99: 3–4
Summary:
Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".
The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project