To Laurence Edmondston 3 May [1856]
Summary
Thanks for reply to queries.
Requests that a wild rock-pigeon be sent. Have they been domesticated as William Macgillivray says [History of British birds (1837) 1: 275–84; see also Variation 1: 185n.]?
Is rabbit wild in Shetlands?
LE’s information on drifted trees adds an archipelago to his list.
Requests information on variation in domesticated Shetland animals;
bones of large quadrupeds in peat.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Laurence Edmondston |
Date: | 3 May [1856] |
Classmark: | L. D. Edmondston (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1867 |
To Laurence Edmondston 11 September [1856]
Summary
Requests observations on pigeons.
Knew LE’s son [Thomas] and deplores his fate [accidental death in 1846].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Laurence Edmondston |
Date: | 11 Sept [1856] |
Classmark: | L. D. Edmondston (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1954 |
To Laurence Edmondston 19 April [1857]
Summary
Thanks for pigeon.
Are there Shetland birds chequered with black marks, as Carl Julian Graba states are in Faeroes [Reise nach Färö (1830)] and Col. King in the Hebrides?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Laurence Edmondston |
Date: | 19 Apr [1857] |
Classmark: | L. D. Edmondston (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2079 |
To Laurence Edmondston 2 August [1857]
Summary
Thanks for rabbit.
Are there dun-coloured ponies in Shetlands? Are they striped?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Laurence Edmondston |
Date: | 2 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | L. D. Edmondston (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2131 |
From Laurence Edmondston [before 3 May 1856]
Summary
The vaunted fidelity of the ark bird has its exceptions.
Gives some details on wild pigeons.
Answers in the affirmative CD’s query about drifted trees.
Author: | Laurence Edmondston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 May 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 229 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1865 |
letter | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Edmondston, Laurence | (1) |