From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 96)
Summary:
CD now has a sufficiently large collection of [skeletons of] chickens to be able to tell how far the young differ proportionally from the old.
He goes on accumulating facts; what he will do with them "remains to be seen".
Attended Glasgow BAAS meeting. "Duke of Argyll spoke excellently" [Rep. BAAS (1855): lxiii–lxxxvi].
Lists his pigeon collection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project