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DCP-LETT-3544

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
12 May [1862]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 132)
Summary:

Asks if WDF has ever crossed wild and common turkeys. Would like to quote his authority [see Variation 1: 292].

Also curious whether WDF has known the so-called japanned peacock to appear from common peacock [Variation 1: 290].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4179

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Park
Date:
12 May 1862
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
12 May [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.276)
Summary:

Asks for information about japanned peacocks from Hudson [John Henry?] Gurney’s flock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10147

From:
Thomas Greenwood
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.34
Summary:

Was pleased to receive JH's version of Book I of the Iliad. Comments on the difficulties of translating ancient works into modern language. Hopes his health is sounder.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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