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From J. J. Weir 3 June 1868
Summary
Plumage of canaries; changes in plumage with successive moults.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6226 |
From J. J. Weir [before 18 June 1868]
Summary
Coloration of linnets.
Sexual behaviour of black hen bullfinch.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 18 June 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 141–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6249 |
To J. J. Weir 5 June 1868
Summary
Sorry JJW cannot visit.
Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.
Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 5 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 317; Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6232 |
To J. J. Weir 18 June [1868]
Summary
CD thanks JJW for letter about the crimson breast of linnets
and the fate of a pugnacious female bullfinch.
Refers to JJW’s pointing out the number of Jenners and Weirs who have been naturalists, and cites some writings by men of those families about striking cases of birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 18 June [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6250 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Weir, J. J. | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Weir, J. J. | (2) |
