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DCP-LETT-1698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
11 June [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 93)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for specimens and his great help to CD in his work on variations in young and adult ducks and poultry. Has found feet of tame adult ducks weigh twice as much as those of wild ones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
27 [June 1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 94)
Summary:

Several seeds have come up after 65–70 days’ immersion in salt water.

Has now a fine collection of pigeons and intends to cross them systematically.

Needs information on mongrel crosses of animals of all kinds.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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