From:
Edgar Leopold Layard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept–Oct 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 185–6
Summary:
Preference of stallions for hybrid mares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Preference of stallions for hybrid mares.
Is collecting facts for Variation; would be grateful for skins of local [Cape of Good Hope] breeds of pigeons, ducks, and poultry.
Admires ELL’s plan to visit Madagascar.
Asks about fertility of hybrid cats, crosses among dogs in Africa, and appearance of feral pigeons at Ascension. Doubts existence of N. African greyhound.
Asks for specimens of pigeons and ducks from the Cape of Good Hope.