RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1960. [Letter to W. H. Sykes, 1859]. In Sotheby & Co. Catalogue of valuable printed books...and historical manuscripts. London, p. 72.
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2023. RN1
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[page] 72
The Property of Geoffrey F. J. Cumberlege, Esq.
[To W. H. Sykes 20 December [1859]]
424 DARWIN (CHARLES) A.L.s., 3 pp., 8vo, Down, 20 December [1858] [to Colonel W. H. Sykes of the East India Company], recommending that Edward Blyth should be appointed as naturalist to the Chinese Expedition '. . . I think that it is of infinite importance that a skilled naturalist should go rather than a mere collector," etc.
*** Darwin repeatedly refers to Blyth's observations in his Animals and Plants under Domestication.
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