From:
John Morris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 246
Summary:
Informs CD on age of land, freshwater, and marine Mollusca.
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From:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 160: 174
Summary:
Reports on breeding experiments with various seeds: corn, aubergine, kidney beans, sugar-peas. Speculates that cause of changes in seed colour in sugar-peas may be mere variation rather than result of impregnation.
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From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 174
Summary:
Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.
Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.
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From:
Thomas Hutton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 166: 283
Summary:
TH believes that the progeny of hybrid crosses, in which a domesticated or "artificial" race is involved, tend to resemble the more "natural" of their parents [see Natural selection, p. 486].
Provides some information on local hybrid domestic geese [see Natural selection, p. 439] and pigeons.
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 22 Mar 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 98: 133–9
Summary:
Gives references to works on fowls and pigeons.
Observations on Gallinaceae.
Musk ox skull from southern England is additional evidence for Agassiz’s glacial period. Owen is mistaken in calling it a buffalo.
EB describes the buffalo proper.
Will send domestic pigeon specimens.
Believes pigeons were not bred in India before the Mohammedan conquest. Describes Indian breeds.
Believes the ass is an African rather than an Asian production. Discusses various species of ass and their distribution.
Wild horned cattle on borders of Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur.
[Notes received by CD on 6 May 1856.]
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