From James Tenant 23 April 1857
London
April 23rd/57
Dr Sir
I have tried the Fish with Oats and the two sorts of Seeds that you sent1 The Tench and Cm Carp and Gold Fish take Both Sorts equally well but I cannot get them to take Oats but if I ever succeed will let you know the result
Your obedient | Servant | J Tenant C Darwin Esqe
CD annotations
Top of page: ‘18’2 brown crayon
Bottom of page: ‘over’ink Verso: ‘Yellow Water Lily & Potamogeton Natans’3 ink
Footnotes
The number of CD’s portfolio of notes on the means of dispersal of animals and plants.
CD’s annotations refer to an entry in his Experimental book, p. 18 (DAR 157a), that reads: ‘Fish ate Yellow Water Lily & Potamogeton seeds— 3 Water Lily seeds passed through a Stork, but did not germinate’.
Summary
Fish will take both sorts of seeds sent by CD, but will not take oats.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2081
- From
- James Tenant
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London
- Source of text
- DAR 205.2: 258
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2081,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
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