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To W. D. Fox   19 March [1855]

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Asks WDF to observe at what age pigeons have tail-feathers sufficiently developed to be counted.

CD is hard at work on his notes for a book with all the facts "for & versus" the immutability of species.

Asks for a young chicken and a nestling common pigeon.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  19 Mar [1855]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 87)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1651

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