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DCP-LETT-1678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
7 May [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 90)
Summary:

William Yarrell has assured him that call ducks cross freely with common varieties. CD would like a seven-day duckling and an old one that dies a natural death.

CD is depressed – all his experiments are going wrong, "all nature is perverse and will not do as I wish it". Feels he is getting out of his depth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1683

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
17 May [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 91)
Summary:

Asks WDF to induce schoolboys to collect eggs of lizards and snakes for him. He will see whether they float and stay alive on sea-water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1686

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].

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