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To Richard Kippist   12 May [1868?]

Summary

Returns volumes of the Ibis.

Requests T. C. Jerdon’s Birds of India

and Thomas Bell’s British reptiles

as well as vols. 5 & 6 of Ibis.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Kippist
Date:  12 May [1868?]
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London (Fellows Files No. 18)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6169A

To Albert Günther   12 May [1868]

Summary

Sends some questions on secondary sexual differences of fishes [missing], which he hopes AG will look over.

Invites AG to come to Down.

Encloses queries on sexual differences and nest-building habits of fish.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  12 May [1868]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (Gunther letters 2); DAR 82: B21–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7186