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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edgar Leopold Layard
Date:
9 Dec 1855
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (3))
Summary:

Is collecting facts for Variation; would be grateful for skins of local [Cape of Good Hope] breeds of pigeons, ducks, and poultry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edgar Leopold Layard
Date:
8 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.143)
Summary:

Admires ELL’s plan to visit Madagascar.

Asks about fertility of hybrid cats, crosses among dogs in Africa, and appearance of feral pigeons at Ascension. Doubts existence of N. African greyhound.

Asks for specimens of pigeons and ducks from the Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edgar Leopold Layard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept–Oct 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 185–6
Summary:

Preference of stallions for hybrid mares.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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