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From:
Robert Patterson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 89–90
Summary:

Sends an account of the destruction of wild rabbits by rats introduced from a wrecked ship.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
17 Apr [1847]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 712
Summary:

Admires RP’s volume [Introduction to zoology, pt 1 (1846)]; he has condensed a great deal of accurate information. CD hopes some good naturalists will spring up as a result.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
6 Apr [1854]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 713
Summary:

He has returned William Thompson’s MSS and, he believes, all his specimens of Cirripedia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
21 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 713
Summary:

Has found a half dozen [cirripede] specimens belonging to William Thompson and a few MS notes. Asks for instructions for sending them to RP.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
10 Mar [1857]
Source of text:
W. E. Praeger 1935 , p. 714
Summary:

Asks RP’s help in procuring a specimen of a real Irish rabbit, L. veomicule [Lepus vermicula]?.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
12 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
W. E. Praeger 1935 , p. 714
Summary:

The [Irish] rabbits arrived safely. "They shall be skeletonized." CD now has rabbits from Shetland, Madeira and Ireland; hopes to receive one from Jamaica.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
21 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 715
Summary:

Thanks RP for communicating the "Rat v. Rabbit case".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project