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DCP-LETT-3803

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 326
Summary:

Sends CD a specimen of the domestic pigeon of China.

Discusses a race of ducks he believes are hybrids between the Muscovy and Chinese domestic duck.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3842

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 327
Summary:

Sends CD a Chinese breed of guinea-pig. Has heard it claimed that the domestic guinea-pig will not interbreed with the wild rock cavy and that, therefore, artificial selection has formed a new species.

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