From Philip Lutley Sclater [3? February 1860]
Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3? Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 289 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2683 |
From P. L. Sclater 11 February 1860
Summary
Informs CD that Sylvicola aureola may be a distinct species but is a close ally of S. aestiva of N. and S. America and perhaps only a "climatic variety".
Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 290, DAR 205.7: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2692 |
From P. L. Sclater 17 April 1861
Summary
Corrects CD’s statement [Origin, 3d ed.] that Madeira does not possess one peculiar bird. There is one, out of the 99.
Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Apr 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 292 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3121 |
From P. L. Sclater 2 June 1877
Summary
Encloses a memorandum [missing] drawn up by W. H. Flower, Huxley, and himself, defending Charles Wyville Thomson against an attack made upon him.
Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10981 |
To P. L. Sclater 29 December 1880
Summary
Asks PLS to sign the memorial for a pension for Wallace.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 29 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12953 |
To P. L. Sclater 3 April 1882
Summary
Encloses paper [by W. Van Dyck] for publication by the Zoological Society ["On Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 367–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 3 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.618) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13753 |
To P. L. Sclater 22 May [1860–81]
Summary
CD has signed the enclosed with great pleasure.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 22 May [1860-81] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (1987) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13839A |
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 14 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks PLS for information about variation in birds. Asks for more information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 14 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.197) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2695 |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 4 March [1861]
Summary
Asks for a rabbit specimen;
inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.239) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3080 |
To P. L. Sclater 12 [March 1861]
Summary
Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].
Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 12 [Mar 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.240) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3086 |
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 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 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 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 Philip Lutley Sclater 12 May [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about japanned peacocks from Hudson [John Henry?] Gurney’s flock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 12 May [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.276) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3543 |
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 24 December [1866]
Summary
Encloses a portion of a letter from B. D. Walsh [5319] concerning an American interested in exchanging birds’ skins.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.324) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5318 |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 9 December [1867]
Summary
Asks for index to Zoological Society’s Proceedings.
Mentions article on "Barbets" by PLS in Intellectual Observer [12 (1867–8): 241–6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.338) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5713 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Sclater, P. L. | (4) |
Sclater, P. L. | (28) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Sclater, P. L. | |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |