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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
3 June 1868
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68–9
Summary:

As JS’s powers of observation seem to exist in all lines, CD begs further information from him and [H. N. B.] Erskine about the natives’ expressions of indignation, affirmation, and negation. The movements of the eyebrows and forehead of a girl in violent grief are of particular interest.

Do sub-breeds of pigeons exist in India as in Europe, but not in England? If so, what is the colour of the plumage in males and females at different stages of development?

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