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DCP-LETT-10953

From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 388
Summary:

Can CD explain why house sparrows persist in trying to build a nest in a spot from which it is daily removed?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10957

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 67)
Summary:

"I have always been inclined to think that sparrows were acute & crafty birds, but you certainly show that they are Fools, & if they go on behaving in so idiotic a manner, you will do quite right to expose their conduct in some public Journal!--"

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