From Robert Scot Skirving [1860?]
Summary
Tells of shooting wood-pigeons that had in their crops acorns that did not grow locally.
[Fragment of letter glued to 2197.]
Author: | Robert Scot Skirving |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 250a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2196 |
From R. S. Skirving [1860?]
Summary
Pigeons in Egypt alight on trees rather than on the mud hovels of the natives [see Variation 1: 181].
[Two fragments glued to 2196.]
Author: | Robert Scot Skirving |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 250b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2197 |
To Robert Scot Skirving 16 November [1861–8]
Summary
Knows nothing of the habits of earwigs. Thinks Edward Newman may be trusted on the point [as to whether or not earwigs can fly].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Scot Skirving |
Date: | 16 Nov [1861-8] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 481 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4673 |
Document type
letter | (3) |
Author
Skirving, R. S. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Skirving, R. S. | (1) |