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To Edward Bartlett   1 July [1871]

Summary

Thanks for ducks’ skins, for which he encloses postal order.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Bartlett
Date:  1 July [1871]
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7843

To Edward Bartlett   [24] September [1871]

Summary

Thanks for goose specimens.

Asks whether Egyptian goose throws water out of side of beak. Can it tear herbage like the domestic goose?

[Mistakenly dated 16 Sept by CD.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Bartlett
Date:  [24] Sept [1871]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7965

To Edward Bartlett   15 October [1871]

Summary

Asks for information on feeding habits of Egyptian goose.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Bartlett
Date:  15 Oct [1871]
Classmark:  Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3(3))
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8010

To Edward Bartlett   17 October [1871]

Summary

Thanks for note received.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Bartlett
Date:  17 Oct [1871]
Classmark:  Gerard A. J. Stodolski (dealer) (January 2022, item 210266)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8011F

From Edward Bartlett   20 September 1871

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Reports on variations in the development of lamellae and how the bills are used in several kinds of geese. Will send skins for examination.

Author:  Edward Bartlett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Sept 1871
Classmark:  DAR 160: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7954

From Edward Bartlett   21 September 1871

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Lists [with prices] four birds that he has forwarded to CD.

Author:  Edward Bartlett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Sept 1871
Classmark:  DAR 160: 50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7959

From Edward Bartlett   16 October 1871

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Replies on how Egyptian geese feed in the water; they do not move heads laterally like ducks sifting water; they tear herbage like common geese.

Author:  Edward Bartlett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Oct 1871
Classmark:  DAR 160: 51
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8011
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