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To Albert Günther   4 May [1877]1

From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.

The box of pigeon’s skins from Yarkand has been dispatched to you today2

May 4

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1
The year is established by the relationship between this postcard and the letter to Albert Günther, 7 May 1877.
2
CD had received from Yarkand, China, a box of pigeon skins collected by John Scully (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to George King, 19 September 1876, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 October [1876]). There is a collection of twenty-nine skins donated by Scully in the Museum of Natural History at Tring (BMNH 1883.6.6.1–29).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Mr.] altered from ‘Mrs.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10951,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10951