To P. L. Sclater 21 November [1870]
Summary
Sends two sheets [of Descent] for correction of names of birds. PLS will save him many disgraceful misspellings. Descent now being prepared in five foreign editions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1870] |
| Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7379 |
To P. L. Sclater 29 December [1870]
Summary
CD is obliged for PLS’s correction [of Descent proofs]. Will add a caption to the woodcut [of the wart-hog] since it is too late to make a new one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7403 |
To P. L. Sclater 23 March [1861]
Summary
Asks about distribution of Gallus and about description of Gallus temminckii, G. R. Gray.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.241) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3096 |
To P. L. Sclater 11 November [1870]
Summary
Accepts PLS’s offer to read proofs of [Descent].
W. H. Hudson’s paper is interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1870] |
| Classmark: | Kotte Autographs (dealers) (April 2019) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7366 |
To P. L. Sclater 2 June [1861]
Summary
Discusses feral rabbits of Porto Santo. Arranges for care of rabbits while the Darwins visit Torquay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 2 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.252) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3173 |
To P. L. Sclater 14 May [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about peacocks, especially Pavo nigripennis. Suggests a crossing experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 14 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.277) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3545 |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 6 January [1866]
Summary
Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.
Notes improvement in health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.311) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4970 |
To P. L. Sclater 21 [April 1861]
Summary
Asks about species of Opetiorhynchus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 21 [Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.245) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3123 |
To P. L. Sclater 4 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks PLS for list of Galapagos birds.
Mentions note he will add to Journal [of researches (1860)]
and correction he will make in Origin [3d ed. (1861)].
Asks PLS about variability in "abnormal parts of birds".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.195) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2684 |
To P. L. Sclater 4 May [1861]
Summary
CD is unable to locate his specimens of two Falkland Island birds [Opetiorhynchus].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 4 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.246) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3138 |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 30 August [1870]
Summary
Encloses, for publication, note about Pampas woodpecker, opposing W. H. Hudson [see 7354].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1870] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.383) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7311 |
To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874]
Summary
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C52–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9384 |
| letter | (32) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (4) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (28) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (32) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
