From Edward William Vernon Harcourt 31 May 1856
Summary
Extensive notes on Madeiran birds: when and where seen on the island and under what conditions.
| Author: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1883 |
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- … letter to Charles Lyell, 16 [June 1856] , in which CD asked to borrow Lyell’s copy. Some undated notes on this work are in DAR 196.4. John Gould exhibited a new species of Prion ‘through the kindness of Mr. [William] Yarrell’ at the Zoological Society of London in 1855 ( J. Gould 1855 ). When CD came to write up his species book, he made the following comment on migratory birds ( Natural selection , p. 494): I have been much struck in the case of oceanic islands, lying at no excessive distance from the main- …
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