To Albert Günther 4 May [1877]1
From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.
The box of pigeon’s skins from Yarkand has been dispatched to you today2
May 4
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this postcard and the letter to Albert Günther, 7 May 1877.
CD had received from Yarkand, China, a box of pigeon skins collected by John Scully (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to George King, 19 September 1876, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 October [1876]). There is a collection of twenty-nine skins donated by Scully in the Museum of Natural History at Tring (BMNH 1883.6.6.1–29).
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Pigeons’ skins dispatched today.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10951
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/115a)
- Physical description
- pc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10951,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10951.xml
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