From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
3 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 86)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for his help and reports on progress in "the Cock and Hen line of business". Has written to every quarter of the world for skins of poultry and pigeons.
As for seeds, Hooker and Bentham obstinately refuse to believe they can live even a few years in the ground.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project