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DCP-LETT-1651

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
19 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 87)
Summary:

Asks WDF to observe at what age pigeons have tail-feathers sufficiently developed to be counted.

CD is hard at work on his notes for a book with all the facts "for & versus" the immutability of species.

Asks for a young chicken and a nestling common pigeon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1650

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey; Royal Society of London
Date:
19 Mar 1855
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR2: 111)
Summary:

Recommends publication of Leonard Horner’s account of researches in alluvial deposits of Egypt [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. It contains valuable observations which will probably become of still higher value in future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3586

From:
Henry Norton Shaw
To:
Woodbine Parish
Date:
19 March 1855
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: JMS 8/17
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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