From Edward Blyth 2 July 1868
July 2/68—
Dear Mr. Darwin,
Many thanks for the copies of your papers.1 I read them over carefully when on a visit to Dr Bree2 at Colchester last week.— It will interest you to know that there are now in the Z. G. specimens of the moufflon sheep from Corsica & from Sardinia, while I have examined some fine skins of the Cyprian race belonging to Ld Lilford, who indeed procured them at my particular request.3 It is remarkable that the three races are as different as many that pass for species. I noted, of course, your remarks about Primula vulgaris & P. veris.4
Yours Sincerely, E Blyth
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
‘Dimorphic condition in Primula’: On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula, and on their remarkable sexual relations. By Charles Darwin. [Read 21 November 1861.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 77–96. [Collected papers 2: 45–63.]
Summary
Has examined three races of the mouflon sheep and remarks on the extent of variation in them.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6263
- From
- Edward Blyth
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 217
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6263,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6263.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16