From Hermann Hoffmann   8 October 1870

Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7338F.xml.

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18.

The letter that may have accompanied these sketches has not been found. However, see letter from Hermann Hoffmann, 23 June 1870 and nn. 1 and 2.
Phasianus gallus domesticus is now Gallus gallus domesticus, the domestic fowl. Mas: male.
Rechter Fuss von unten: right foot from below (German).
Linker Fuss von oben: left foot from above (German).

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