To T. C. Eyton 3 December [1855]
Summary
Now has several pigeons, and intends to get pigeons from all parts of the world.
Glad TCE is working at dogs. Would TCE like head of Chinese dog?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1855] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.116) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1789 |
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- … experiments notebook, p. 22 ( Notebooks ), there is a list …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 December [1855]
Summary
Variation in cats.
Is comparing skeletons of poultry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1855] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1791 |
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- … letter from Edward Blyth, 22–3 August 1855 ). This was the …
From Edward Blyth 8 December 1855
Summary
What does CD think of A. R. Wallace’s paper in the Annals & Magazine of Natural History ["On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species", n.s. 16 (1855): 184–96]? EB considers it good on the whole.
Japanned variety of peacock.
Regional variations in bird species.
EB has little faith in the aboriginal wildness of the Chillingham cattle.
Races of humped cattle of India, China, and Africa.
Indian and Malayan gigantic squirrels, with various races remaining true to their colour, would afford capital data for Wallace, as would the local varieties of certain molluscs. Has Wallace’s lucid collation of facts unsettled CD’s ideas regarding the persistence of species?
Bengal hybrid race of geese is very uniform in colour and as prolific as the European tame goose [see Natural selection, p. 439].
Will see what he can do for CD with regard to domestic pigeons.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1855 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A104–A107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1792 |
To Edgar Leopold Layard 9 December 1855
Summary
Is collecting facts for Variation; would be grateful for skins of local [Cape of Good Hope] breeds of pigeons, ducks, and poultry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edgar Leopold Layard |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1855 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (3)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1794 |
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- … letter from Edward Blyth, 22–3 August 1855 ). See also CD’s …
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
| Layard, E. L. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
| Layard, E. L. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
