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DCP-LETT-1857

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Godfrey Wedgwood
Date:
21 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks GW for his report about the rabbits at Sandon [Staffs.]. Fears case has broken down, except that it is now known that such a breed has run wild for some years. No need to send bodies since breed is so obscure.

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DCP-LETT-1906

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Everest
Date:
18 June [1856]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:

Seeks to verify whether bulldogs have degenerated in India [see Variation 1: 37–8].

CD has "sometimes gone so far as to doubt whether climate has any influence even on colour".

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