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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
23 May [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 92)
Summary:

He may insert his request for lizards’ eggs in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

His study of mongrel chicks is to ascertain whether the young of domestic breeds differ as much as their parents.

Has already sent a communication on means of distribution of plants by sea to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 May 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.45
Summary:

A letter to accompany Frederick McCoy's 1855-3-9, indicating that it seems appropriate to pay the bills. One of the professors just appointed has died in Australia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project