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DCP-LETT-7815

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 194
Summary:

Discusses instinct in ducks and turkeys.

Reports a case of the inheritance of an acquired characteristic in a pig.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 June [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 114)
Summary:

Gives his opinion of the charges against E. W. Lane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2296

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
27 [June 1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 115)
Summary:

Profoundly sorry for Lane.

Thanks WDF for facts about call ducks, pigs, and Leicester sheep.

Has been observing and experimenting on the construction of bees’ cells. Thinks he has a theory which simplifies the problem.

Scarlet fever in family; nurse ill.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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