From R. S. Skirving [1860?]

Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2197.xml.

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2197,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2197

Summary

Pigeons in Egypt alight on trees rather than on the mud hovels of the natives [see Variation 1: 181].

[Two fragments glued to 2196.]

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-2197
From: Robert Scot Skirving
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: [1860?]
Sent from: unstated
Source of text: DAR 205.2: 250b
Physical description: 4pp inc †

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8.