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From:
Samuel Owen Glenie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 54
Summary:

He and Mrs G pleased to receive CD’s letter indicating that he found their observations worthy of attention.

Hopes soon to be able to answer CD’s queries on first plumage of chickens of black-boned variety of fowl.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Samuel Owen Glenie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 56
Summary:

His observations of the chickens hatched from eggs of an isolated pair of pure-bred black-boned fowl. Nine were black-boned, two were like ordinary fowl.

Quotes a Mr Holdsworth on unusual expressions of Singhalese and Tamils in pointing and beckoning.

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