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DCP-LETT-1793

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
9 Dec [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.117)
Summary:

Vexed he cannot find head of [Chinese] dog.

First took up skeletonising to see how much young pigeons and poultry differed from the old.

Wishes to ascertain differences in skeletons of pigeons, poultry, covey birds, and rabbits. William Yarrell has shown CD breastbones. W. B. Tegetmeier has shown him skulls of fowls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1736

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 [Dec 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 143
Summary:

Burying charlock seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1794

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edgar Leopold Layard
Date:
9 Dec 1855
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (3))
Summary:

Is collecting facts for Variation; would be grateful for skins of local [Cape of Good Hope] breeds of pigeons, ducks, and poultry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1163

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Decr 8th / 55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/220, RI
Summary:

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Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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