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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
22 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 64–65)
Summary:

Answers JVC’s questions about the rock-thrush, the tortoise-shell cat, and the logger-headed duck.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 117, DAR 111: A91
Summary:

Position as Curator allows no time for experiment.

Describes plans for vast new layout of Calcutta Botanic Garden according to natural orders.

Himalayan and Scottish plants are doing well.

Hopes to experiment on temperate plants in tropics, to test CD’s views of migration during glacial periods.

Sends observations on acclimatisation of English cultivated plants.

Leersia CD sent are growing and fertile.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project