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DCP-LETT-1958

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
22 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

CD is working hard on variations.

Asks if PHG’s bald-pate pigeon [described in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica (1851)] is a true rock-pigeon.

Can he obtain a specimen of the rabbits that have run wild, and a wild canary, and the body of any domestic or fancy pigeon which has been in the West Indies for some generations?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1962

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
28 Sept 1856
Source of text:
The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 316)
Summary:

Thanks PHG for information about the bald-pate pigeon.

Will write to Richard Hill.

Can PHG remember any facts relevant to transport of animals and plants to distant islands?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2082

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
27 Apr [1857]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection: Gosse Correspondence)
Summary:

Asks PHG to conduct an experiment to see if young littoral molluscs will cling to a duck’s foot – CD seeks to explain distribution of molluscs without adopting E. Forbes’s [continental extension] theory.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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