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To John Scott [after 8 January 1868]
Summary
Supports relocating the Calcutta Botanic Garden to a site near the Himalayas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 116v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5352 |
To John Scott 3 June 1868
Summary
As JS’s powers of observation seem to exist in all lines, CD begs further information from him and [H. N. B.] Erskine about the natives’ expressions of indignation, affirmation, and negation. The movements of the eyebrows and forehead of a girl in violent grief are of particular interest.
Do sub-breeds of pigeons exist in India as in Europe, but not in England? If so, what is the colour of the plumage in males and females at different stages of development?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 3 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6226F |
Author
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Scott, John | (2) |