Colbert Austin Canfield
1828–73
Physician, rancher, and naturalist. County physician for Monterey, California; coroner and jail physician at Salinas, California. Made meteorological observations. Contributed collections of marine animals and birds’ eggs to the Smithsonian Institution.
Sources
Correspondence vol. 19, letter from C. A. Canfield, 5 August 1871
Welton et al. 1969.
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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