Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 26 1868
Dear Sir
I am very much obliged for your kindness in sending me the table about the Sheep.1 This is a really valuable contribution. I am ashamed to trouble you, but its value wd be greatly enhanced if you cd find out for me whether the sheep belonged to one breed & its name, or to several breeds.
With respect to the other subject referred to in your letter, you may like to hear that I have lately been informed by Mr Harward, a large breeder of Shorthorns, that he tried M. Thury’s plan, & that it quite failed.2
With my best thanks, pray believe me dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
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