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To W. D. Fox 19 March [1855]
Summary
Asks WDF to observe at what age pigeons have tail-feathers sufficiently developed to be counted.
CD is hard at work on his notes for a book with all the facts "for & versus" the immutability of species.
Asks for a young chicken and a nestling common pigeon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 19 Mar [1855] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 87) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1651 |
To the Royal Society 19 March 1855
Summary
Recommends publication of Leonard Horner’s account of researches in alluvial deposits of Egypt [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. It contains valuable observations which will probably become of still higher value in future.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey; Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1855 |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR2: 111) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1650 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Royal Society of London | (1) |
| Sharpey, William | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Royal Society of London | (1) |
| Sharpey, William | (1) |
