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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.

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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6251

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 17
Summary:

Further discussion of the difficulties with S. J. O’H. Horsman [curate at Down].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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