To Osbert Salvin 19 October [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Oct 19th
My dear Mr. Salvin
I shd. very much like to see the Prion, if the specimen is not very precious; for the case has a special bearing on my subject.2 But I must restrict myself to a few words, as I have already said too much.
Please enclose a scrap, saying whether I may immerse the head alone in warm (not hot) water, so as to open the beak? Of course I do not wish to do so if specimen is precious.—
I suspect that your lower mandibular lamellæ serve to clean the upper lamellæ; & if you ever go into subject pray keep this in mind. Yours very truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Address
C. Darwin Esq
Orpington Station
Kent
per South-Eastern Railway.
(I will send in two days to Station for chance of parcels being there.—)
Footnotes
Summary
CD would like to see the Prion [see 8016]. May he immerse the head in warm water so as to open the beak? Directions for sending the parcel.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8019A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Osbert Salvin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sybil Rampen (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8019A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8019A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19