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To W. B. Tegetmeier   25 August 1869

Summary

Inquires about the differences in plumage between chicks and adults of certain poultry breeds. Is anxious to know whether the chick’s plumage closely approaches the adult’s in those breeds in which the sexes resemble each other in plumage.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  25 Aug 1869
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6870
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