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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
6 Apr [1854]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 713
Summary:

He has returned William Thompson’s MSS and, he believes, all his specimens of Cirripedia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
21 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 713
Summary:

Has found a half dozen [cirripede] specimens belonging to William Thompson and a few MS notes. Asks for instructions for sending them to RP.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James R. Garrett
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
1 Dec 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 232
Summary:

Discusses the transport of seeds by birds. William Thompson received letters on this subject from CD in 1848 and from Edward Forbes in 1850. Encloses copies of Thompson’s reply to Forbes’s letter of 23 Feb 1850 and of Thompson’s notes (1848–51) on transport of seeds by birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
10 Mar [1857]
Source of text:
W. E. Praeger 1935 , p. 714
Summary:

Asks RP’s help in procuring a specimen of a real Irish rabbit, L. veomicule [Lepus vermicula]?.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
12 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
W. E. Praeger 1935 , p. 714
Summary:

The [Irish] rabbits arrived safely. "They shall be skeletonized." CD now has rabbits from Shetland, Madeira and Ireland; hopes to receive one from Jamaica.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project