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DCP-LETT-6226

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 78
Summary:

Plumage of canaries; changes in plumage with successive moults.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6232

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 317; Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:

Sorry JJW cannot visit.

Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.

Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6249

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 June 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 141–2
Summary:

Coloration of linnets.

Sexual behaviour of black hen bullfinch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6250

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
18 June [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD thanks JJW for letter about the crimson breast of linnets

and the fate of a pugnacious female bullfinch.

Refers to JJW’s pointing out the number of Jenners and Weirs who have been naturalists, and cites some writings by men of those families about striking cases of birds.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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