From:
Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 163: 8
Summary:
F. S. Holmes is welcome to examine his fish vertebrae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
F. S. Holmes is welcome to examine his fish vertebrae.
Habits of the fallow deer during the breeding season. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 803.]
Sends Lord Enniskillen’s account of origin of the Irish yew: transplanted from the wild; propagated by cuttings thereafter. Offspring recently raised from seed are intermediate between common and Irish [weeping] yew.