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DCP-LETT-1867

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

DCP-LETT-1954

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laurence Edmondston
Date:
11 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
L. D. Edmondston (private collection)
Summary:

Requests observations on pigeons.

Knew LE’s son [Thomas] and deplores his fate [accidental death in 1846].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2079

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laurence Edmondston
Date:
19 Apr [1857]
Source of text:
L. D. Edmondston (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for pigeon.

Are there Shetland birds chequered with black marks, as Carl Julian Graba states are in Faeroes [Reise nach Färö (1830)] and Col. King in the Hebrides?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2131

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laurence Edmondston
Date:
2 Aug [1857]
Source of text:
L. D. Edmondston (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for rabbit.

Are there dun-coloured ponies in Shetlands? Are they striped?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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