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From Edward Blyth   [8 January 1858]

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Zebra-striped asses.

Markings of a Bengal jungle cock.

Refers to some of his own articles on birds in India.

Reports the arrival of the "glorious garrison of Lucknow". The "wonderful superiority of the European to the Asiatic" made the success of the insurrection inconceivable.

Author:  Edward Blyth
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [8 Jan 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 98: A144–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2200

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  • J.  D. Hooker, 31 March [1858] ). Blyth 1857a . CD cited this article in Natural selection , p.  311. Blyth 1857b . A copy of the article is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. William Saltonstall Wiseman was a captain in the British navy from 1854 to his retirement in 1870. …
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