To J. J. Weir 19 October 1871
Summary
"Like you I have often wondered at the different food of the old and young, as with graminivorous birds feeding their young with insects."
Recommends forthcoming book by John Lubbock [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 328 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8018 |
To A. C. Ramsay 19 October 1871
Summary
Thanks ACR for papers.
Glad present situation of our continents has been confirmed.
Wishes ACR would prove his view of origin of Red Sandstones, which many dispute.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 9 (EH 88205982) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8019 |
To Osbert Salvin 19 October [1871]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8019A |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
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