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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
21 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.135)
Summary:

Asks whether offspring of cross between African pig and common pig are fertile. Are Lord Rowland Hill’s African pigs domesticated?

Mentions pigeons’ skeletons.

Is working at a book on variation [Natural selection].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Calverley Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 August 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.446
Summary:

Inquires after JH's interest on changing the spelling of the English language to a phonetic system.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project