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To Edgar Leopold Layard 9 December 1855
Summary
Is collecting facts for Variation; would be grateful for skins of local [Cape of Good Hope] breeds of pigeons, ducks, and poultry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edgar Leopold Layard |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1855 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (3)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1794 |
To Edgar Leopold Layard 8 June [1856]
Summary
Admires ELL’s plan to visit Madagascar.
Asks about fertility of hybrid cats, crosses among dogs in Africa, and appearance of feral pigeons at Ascension. Doubts existence of N. African greyhound.
Asks for specimens of pigeons and ducks from the Cape of Good Hope.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edgar Leopold Layard |
| Date: | 8 June [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.143) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1894 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Layard, E. L. | (2) |
