To Robert Everest? 18 June [1856]
Summary
Seeks to verify whether bulldogs have degenerated in India [see Variation 1: 37–8].
CD has "sometimes gone so far as to doubt whether climate has any influence even on colour".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Everest |
Date: | 18 June [1856] |
Classmark: | Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1906 |
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Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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