From A. L. Adams 29 August [1878]

Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11677.xml.

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 26.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11677,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11677

Summary

Thanks for letter on ALA’s qualifications for vacant chair of natural history.

Reports observations on deer which have larger left antlers than right, possibly for protection of heart.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-11677
From: Andrew Leith Adams
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: 29 Aug [1878]
Sent from: Maida Vale
Source of text: DAR 159: 8
Physical description: 3pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 26.