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From:
Thomas Seare
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 125
Summary:

Describes example of instinctive behaviour in new-born leveret.

Cites experiment in which rabbit breathed vapour of nitrite of amyl.

Suggests that change in terrestrial atmosphere is responsible for evolution from scales to fur or feathers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project