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From James Tenant   23 April 1857

London

April 23rd/57

Dr Sir

I have tried the Fish with Oats and the two sorts of Seeds that you sent1 The Tench and Cm Carp and Gold Fish take Both Sorts equally well but I cannot get them to take Oats but if I ever succeed will let you know the result

Your obedient | Servant | J Tenant C Darwin Esqe

CD annotations

Top of page: ‘18’2 brown crayon
Bottom of page: ‘over’ink Verso: ‘Yellow Water Lily & Potamogeton Natans’3 ink
2
The number of CD’s portfolio of notes on the means of dispersal of animals and plants.
3
CD’s annotations refer to an entry in his Experimental book, p. 18 (DAR 157a), that reads: ‘Fish ate Yellow Water Lily & Potamogeton seeds— 3 Water Lily seeds passed through a Stork, but did not germinate’.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2081,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2081