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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[25? September 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 17
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Darwin Family Letters
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Thanks JSH for his magnificent present. Hopes Hooker will bring the specimens.
Have water-fowl ever been seen at Ipswich on Mr Ransome’s great tank?
Will send JS's treatise; wishes could offer something 'more intrinsically valuable' as token of gratitude for everything.
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Gives CD further details of the fertility of the offspring from cross of a yak and Indian cow, the so-called chooboos, whose fertility he has traced to the seventh generation [see Natural selection, pp. 437–8].
Thanks for photograph of the moon.