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DCP-LETT-7965

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Bartlett
Date:
[24] Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for goose specimens.

Asks whether Egyptian goose throws water out of side of beak. Can it tear herbage like the domestic goose?

[Mistakenly dated 16 Sept by CD.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7966

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
24 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 41–2)
Summary:

CD most interested by Primitive culture [1871]. Impressed by EBT’s account of development of religious beliefs and of the survival of old customs. Hopes EBT will treat morals.

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