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DCP-LETT-6049

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
25 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Has found EB’s MS most interesting and valuable. Fully half the facts were new to him; will probably use some.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6091

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
4 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Glad to hear about colours of Hylobates.

Cannot find any statement about which digits in man are most subject to syndactylism in Isidore Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire]’s Histoire des anomalies [1832–7].

Asks questions concerned with seasonal and sexual changes in plumage of various bird species.

Does male woodpecker share in incubation?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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