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To Hugh Falconer 24 [June 1861]
Summary
Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.
Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 24 [June 1861] |
| Classmark: | Bellmans (dealers) (5 December 2019, lot 632) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3196 |
From Hugh Falconer 23 June 1861
Summary
Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".
The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
