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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
26 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has WBT ever heard of a case of the regeneration of monstrous (extra) toe on fowls?

Inquires about a curious pigeon reported at the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
26 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Congratulations on marriage, which CD considers the best and only chance for happiness in this world.

Glad HWB is near completion of book.

Begs him to thank Wallace for Melastoma information; CD "cannot endure being beaten by a beggarly flower".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:
26 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (23 June 1993, lot 146)
Summary:

Asks FB’s help in identifying an article in The Field about the fins of fishes growing again after being cut off, and inquiring whether he has heard of the re-growth of organs in the mammalia or birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project