From H. W. Bates 19 December 1866
Royal Geographical Society | 15, Whitehall Place, S.W.
Decem 19th 1866
My dear Mr Darwin
On the other side is the extract you require.1 I presume “saigak” means the same as “saiga”, therefore the animals were the saiga antelope.2 The islands were new discoveries; the Kirghises of the Aral shores did not know of their existence.3
Yours sincerely | H W Bates
I am now reading Lyells 1st vol. New Ed. Principles, with intense pleasure & great profit4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Butakoff, Aleksey Ivanovich. 1852. Survey of the Sea of Aral. By Commander Alexey Butakoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy. Communicated by Sir Roderick I. Murchison. [Read 13 December 1852.] Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 23 (1853): 93–101.
Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. 10th edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Summary
HWB sends a copy [missing] of Boutakoff’s letter, explaining that the deer were saiga antelopes and the islands were new discoveries.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5313
- From
- Henry Walter Bates
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- R. Geogr. Soc.
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 82
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5313,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5313.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14