From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
22 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
CD is working hard on variations.
Asks if PHG’s bald-pate pigeon [described in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica (1851)] is a true rock-pigeon.
Can he obtain a specimen of the rabbits that have run wild, and a wild canary, and the body of any domestic or fancy pigeon which has been in the West Indies for some generations?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project