From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edgar Leopold Layard
Date:
8 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.143)
Summary:
Admires ELL’s plan to visit Madagascar.
Asks about fertility of hybrid cats, crosses among dogs in Africa, and appearance of feral pigeons at Ascension. Doubts existence of N. African greyhound.
Asks for specimens of pigeons and ducks from the Cape of Good Hope.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project