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From:
Philip Gidley King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 169: 26
Summary:

PGK’s brother is coming to England and will call on CD.

He is impressed but not absolutely convinced by the Origin.

Raises a question about which CD wrote years ago: why do sheep degenerate in Australia, necessitating periodic importation?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Gidley King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 169: 27
Summary:

CD’s photograph evokes PGK’s reminiscence of CD in the Beagle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Gidley King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 169: 28
Summary:

CD’s queries on expression of aborigines were difficult to answer because he encounters mainly those touched by civilisation. Hopes CD did get answers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project