From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
12 May [1862]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 132)
Summary:
Asks if WDF has ever crossed wild and common turkeys. Would like to quote his authority [see Variation 1: 292].
Also curious whether WDF has known the so-called japanned peacock to appear from common peacock [Variation 1: 290].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project