From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
25 Aug 1869
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Inquires about the differences in plumage between chicks and adults of certain poultry breeds. Is anxious to know whether the chick’s plumage closely approaches the adult’s in those breeds in which the sexes resemble each other in plumage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project