From Osbert Salvin 14 October 1871
32, Grove, Boltons. S.W.
14 Oct 1871
My dear Mr Darwin,
I am very glad to find that you will be able to pick something out of my notes on ducks.1 Pray set me to work whenever you can for it is a real pleasure to me to go into such matters. & observations of the kind occupy more than half my time & thoughts.
When you have quite done with them I should like to have the notes back, for I have for some time been meditating setting the South American Anatidæ in order & they might come in usefully.2
Very truly yours | Osbert Salvin.
Footnotes
Summary
Is glad his notes on ducks are useful; would like them back when CD has finished with them as they might help him to put the South American Anatidae in order.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8009
- From
- Osbert Salvin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Brompton
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 22
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8009,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8009.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19