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From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 174
Summary:

Thanks CD for subscribing to the Cybele Hibernica.

Reports some observations made on the common buffaloes of India seen swimming and diving in 12ft of floodwater in order to crop the herbage beneath.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 175
Summary:

It is Bos arni which dives for herbage and in so doing it also swallows many freshwater shrimps.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 176
Summary:

Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project