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DCP-LETT-1962

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
28 Sept 1856
Source of text:
The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 316)
Summary:

Thanks PHG for information about the bald-pate pigeon.

Will write to Richard Hill.

Can PHG remember any facts relevant to transport of animals and plants to distant islands?

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1963

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 177
Summary:

Will send MS on one point of geographical distribution. It is "of infinite importance" that JDH see it, for CD has never felt such difficulty in deciding what to do.

Wants capsules of aquatic plants, to float in sea-water.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2068

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 [Sept 1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Specifies pigeons in which he is interested. Has become almost more interested in rabbits than anything else.

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