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To John Edward Gray   14 January [1856]

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Requests that JEG secure the assistance of Samuel Birch in regard to information about varieties of domesticated animals and plants in China. Encloses memorandum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Edward Gray
Date:  14 Jan [1856]
Classmark:  British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1490, 1488)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1820A

To J. E. Gray   19 January [1856]

Summary

Is obliged for JEG’s assistance.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Edward Gray
Date:  19 Jan [1856]
Classmark:  British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1491)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1822A

To J. E. Gray   1 July [1856]

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Requests information on ranges of echinoderms for his essay on variation [Natural selection]. Are there genera with representative species in northern and southern seas, but none in tropics?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Edward Gray
Date:  1 July [1856]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 69)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1915
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