From:
Frederick King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 20
Summary:
Cattle and sheep varieties removed from their native soils degenerate rapidly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Cattle and sheep varieties removed from their native soils degenerate rapidly.
Notes and a copy of a letter written by ESG to John Dowson of Whitby. Expresses her opinion of the biographies of Erasmus Darwin written by Mrs Schimmelpenninck and Anna Seward.
Sends his photograph as requested.
Regrets she has none of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s letters. Relates some anecdotes concerning her grandfather.