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From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Aug 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 160.2: 298
Summary:

On his breeding of Jacobin pigeons. How reciprocal crosses to produce mules work among canaries, goldfinches, linnets, and green linnets.

Will soon forward copies of Cottage Gardener for June.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernard Peirce Brent
Date:
7 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Richard Brent (private collection)
Summary:

Sympathises with Brent’s legal difficulties. Declines offer of a cock silk fowl, but accepts offer of a German old fashioned pouter pigeon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1857
Source of text:
DAR 160: 299
Summary:

Discusses the difficulties of breeding mules by crossing canaries and finches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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