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DCP-LETT-6215

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
30 May [1868]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Glad to have JJW’s opinion on nest-building. Wallace’s view [that skill is learned] is opposed to many facts.

Asks JJW about birds and their behaviour.

Wants information on the first plumage of different breeds of canaries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6371F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Syer Bristowe
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for his information about coloured grapes, but asks that he take no further trouble.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6845

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Merle Norman
Date:
29 July [1869]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Summary:

Asks whether AMN has any specimens of British calcareous sponges that CD could forward to Haeckel, who is studying them.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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