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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
6 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.311)
Summary:

Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.

Notes improvement in health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
24 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.324)
Summary:

Encloses a portion of a letter from B. D. Walsh [5319] concerning an American interested in exchanging birds’ skins.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project