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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
26 May 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 384
Summary:
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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Delayed answering JH's letter. Describes new baby son [Thomas?]. Thanks Margaret Brodie Herschel for note.
Migratory male nightingales and blackcaps arrive before females [see Descent 1: 259].
Discusses chaffinch "Peggers".
Disagrees with CD’s opinion that canary mules are fertile.
Display of colour of greenfinches in courtship.