From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
4 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:
Glad to hear about colours of Hylobates.
Cannot find any statement about which digits in man are most subject to syndactylism in Isidore Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire]’s Histoire des anomalies [1832–7].
Asks questions concerned with seasonal and sexual changes in plumage of various bird species.
Does male woodpecker share in incubation?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project