From W. W. Cheshire 15 December 1881
Office of | County Superintendent, | Crown Point, Ind.,
Dec. 15 1881.
Prof. Charles Darwin. | England.
Please accept from the undersigned, who is one of your friends and readers of this Continent, the enclosed photograph.1
It represents the breast bone of a wild goose, into which, at right angles to the vertical section, had been shot a bone arrow head 9 inches long. It grew fast in the aperture it made and formed quite a callous as you will see represented in the picture.
Will you be kind enough to acknowledge the receipt of it?2
Very Respectfully | W. W. Cheshire. | Supt of Schools
Summary
Sends photograph of a wild goose that survived being shot by a nine-inch arrowhead.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13551
- From
- William Wilder Cheshire
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Crown Point, Ind.
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 138
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13551,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13551.xml
