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To Edward Blyth 25 March [1868]
Summary
Has found EB’s MS most interesting and valuable. Fully half the facts were new to him; will probably use some.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6049 |
To Edward Blyth 4 April [1868]
Summary
Glad to hear about colours of Hylobates.
Cannot find any statement about which digits in man are most subject to syndactylism in Isidore Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire]’s Histoire des anomalies [1832–7].
Asks questions concerned with seasonal and sexual changes in plumage of various bird species.
Does male woodpecker share in incubation?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6091 |
To Edward Blyth [after July 1868]
Summary
Questions from CD related to bird plumage and sexual differences, with answers by EB.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | [after July 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.2: 183, 187, 187v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6532 |
