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To A. D. Bartlett 15 September 1871
Summary
CD questions ADB on the mode of feeding of geese and on the existence of variations in the structure of the bill; is trying to trace gradations in structure and habits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7944 |
To A. D. Bartlett 20 September [1871]
Summary
Asks whether any goose sifts water with its beak.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7952 |
To A. D. Bartlett 19 December [1871]
Summary
Can ADB allow T. W. Wood to sketch one of his dogs in hostile and friendly positions?
Do elephants in the Zoological Gardens carry tails aloft when excited?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8111 |
From A. D. Bartlett 19 September 1871
Summary
Geese do not commonly sift water through their bills for food, as they feed on land. A few have well-developed lamellae for sifting. Will have his son check at Zoological Garden.
| Author: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7951 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Bartlett, A. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
