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To Francis Trevelyan Buckland   26 January [1863]

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Asks FB’s help in identifying an article in The Field about the fins of fishes growing again after being cut off, and inquiring whether he has heard of the re-growth of organs in the mammalia or birds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:  26 Jan [1863]
Classmark:  Christie’s, London (dealers) (23 June 1993, lot 146)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3948F

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  • … Buckland’s father, the geologist William Buckland , died in 1856 ( DNB ). The reference …

To F. T. Buckland   1 February [1863]

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CD sends thanks for information; will write about the fins.

His health is weak and he is "almost smothered" with facts and inquiries, so is trying to restrict the scope of his present work, on variation under domestication.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:  1 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3961

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  • Buckland, [before 1 February  1863] . CD had received information from Brian Houghton Hodgson that dog and fox crosses had occurred in India (see Correspondence vol.  4, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 13 October 1848 ; see also Correspondence vol.  2, Questions for Mr Wynne, [February–July 1838]). In reviewing the evidence for the intercrossing of dogs with other species in Variation , CD repeated two further anecdotes indicating that some breeds of dog might interbreed with foxes (see Variation 1: 31–3). William
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