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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sven Nilsson
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
Lund University Library Special Collections (Sven Nilsson papers)
Summary:

Thanks SN for the trouble he has taken for him [on Lapland reindeer horns].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 37–38)
Summary:

Asks JVC to ascertain the age at which merino rams develop horns, and whether they grow faster or more slowly than in other breeds of sheep in which both sexes have horns.

Asks how JVC’s translation [of Variation] has sold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project