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From Francis Boott   23 January 1863

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His son wants CD’s opinion about a cub supposed by Frank Buckland to be progeny of a lioness and mastiff.

Lyell working at last proofs [of Antiquity of man]; he is scornful of Owen.

Author:  Francis Boott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Jan 1863
Classmark:  DAR 160: 254
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3938

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  • William Henry Patten-Saunders brought the lioness from Africa as a present for his mother ( Bell’s Life in London , 16 November 1862, p.  5). A photograph of the cub has not been found. Buckland
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