From Bernard Peirce Brent [1860?]1
you that ducks when they sleep on the water take out their feet shake them and place them under their feathers.2
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I trust you will not take it amiss in me for thus freely expressing my views, and again thanking you for the entertain-
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Habits of ducks when sleeping on water.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2624
- From
- Bernard Peirce Brent
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 205.2: 217
- Physical description
- AL inc †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2624,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2624.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8