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DCP-LETT-2220

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
22 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 20)
Summary:

CD and J. D. Hooker have differed on the following question and agreed to ask several botanists: would a good botanist describing a local flora record varieties as readily in large as in small genera?

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DCP-LETT-2219

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
22 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 111)
Summary:

Thanks for Hewitson [British oology].

Has found more variability in birds’ nests than he expected.

Interested in WDF’s note about turkey terrified by a frog [see Natural selection, p. 488 n.].

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