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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Aug [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has an astonishing lot of mongrel poultry and expects next generation to approach Gallus bankiva in red-brown plumage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
13 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Reports the results of some poultry crossing experiments; comments on transmission of different features.

"My unlucky Book [Origin] will be published 1st week in November."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project