From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laurence Edmondston
Date:
3 May [1856]
Source of text:
L. D. Edmondston (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for reply to queries.
Requests that a wild rock-pigeon be sent. Have they been domesticated as William Macgillivray says [History of British birds (1837) 1: 275–84; see also Variation 1: 185n.]?
Is rabbit wild in Shetlands?
LE’s information on drifted trees adds an archipelago to his list.
Requests information on variation in domesticated Shetland animals;
bones of large quadrupeds in peat.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project