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DCP-LETT-3454

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 8
Summary:

Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.

Family news.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3457

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Has heard of mules of canary and other finches breeding occasionally, but it is rare, and there is hardly one authenticated case of two such mules breeding together.

Sixteen of the household at Down are sick with influenza.

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