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To Philip Henry Gosse   22 September [1856]

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CD is working hard on variations.

Asks if PHG’s bald-pate pigeon [described in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica (1851)] is a true rock-pigeon.

Can he obtain a specimen of the rabbits that have run wild, and a wild canary, and the body of any domestic or fancy pigeon which has been in the West Indies for some generations?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Philip Henry Gosse
Date:  22 Sept [1856]
Classmark:  Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1958

To P. H. Gosse   28 September [1856]

Summary

Thanks PHG for information about the bald-pate pigeon.

Will write to Richard Hill.

Can PHG remember any facts relevant to transport of animals and plants to distant islands?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Philip Henry Gosse
Date:  28 Sept 1856
Classmark:  The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 316)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1962
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