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To Edward Blyth   10 December [1866]

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Asks for reference to EB’s article about tame deer on island in Aral Sea.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Blyth
Date:  10 Dec [1866]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4950

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From Edward Blyth   13 [December] 1866

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Gives CD reference to case of the saiga, an antelope, fearless of man.

Reports observations by New Zealander who has seen heaps of pebbles presumably voided by Dinornis.

Author:  Edward Blyth
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 [Dec] 1866
Classmark:  DAR 160: 207
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4975

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  • … From Edward Blyth   13 [December] 1866
  • … DAR 160: 207 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 13 [Dec] 1866 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … on 15 December. Letter to Edward Blyth, 10 December [1866] . Blyth’s notice appeared in …
  • … November 1866 (see letter to Edward Blyth, 10 December [1866] and n.  2). Blyth described …

To Henry Walter Bates   18 December [1866]

Summary

Asks for a letter on the tameness of deer, written by Commander A. Boutakoff to R. I. Murchison and printed in the Journal [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 23 (1853): 93–101].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Walter Bates
Date:  18 Dec [1866]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5312

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  • … Impey Murchison ( Butakoff 1852 ; see letter to Edward Blyth, 10 December [1866] and n.   …
  • … 4, and letter from Edward Blyth, 13 [December] 1866 ). …
  • 1866 . Bates was assistant secretary of the Royal Geographical Society of London. CD had asked Edward Blyth