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To J. J. Weir   18 September [1873]

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JJW is quite at liberty to use CD’s name as patron of cat show.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Jenner Weir
Date:  18 Sept [1873]
Classmark:  Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (B MS Misc.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8524

To J. J. Weir   22 May 1873

Summary

Has no doubt he will find JJW’s address interesting.

Thinks same spot for nesting might prove attractive to birds, though they had had no intercommunication.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Jenner Weir
Date:  22 May 1873
Classmark:  Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8919

From J. J. Weir   13 November 1873

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Hybrid Motacilla.

Case of female duck leaving mate to pair with male of another species.

Author:  John Jenner Weir
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Nov 1873
Classmark:  DAR 88: 179–80
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9139
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