To A. D. Bartlett 20 September [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Sept. 20
My dear Sir
I thank truly for your letter & trouble which you have taken for me.—2 When at the Z. Gardens, if you can ascertain, or observe whether any goose sifts the water, as well as uses its beak for tearing, I sh. be greatly obliged by being allowed to quote you.—3 I hope that I may hear from your son.4
Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from A. D. Bartlett, 19 September 1871.
Bartlett was the superintendent of the Zoological Society of London’s gardens at Regent’s Park.
Bartlett’s son was Edward Bartlett.
Summary
Asks whether any goose sifts water with its beak.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7952
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Abraham Dee Bartlett
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7952,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7952.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
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