To Abraham Dee Bartlett 26 May [1861]
Summary
Bearer brings three Porto Santo rabbits. Will ADB keep them and see whether they can be crossed with some other breed? CD believes they have become much reduced in size and modified in colour since their introduction into the island.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 26 May [1861] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3159 |
To A. D. Bartlett 24 August [1860]
Summary
Sends copy of Origin.
Discusses stripes on hybrid of donkey and wild ass.
Will let ADB know if lady consents to sending rabbits to [Zoological] Gardens.
Asks about gestation of Canidae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 24 Aug [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4273 |
To Abraham Dee Bartlett 30 January [1865]
Summary
Orders that one of CD’s Porto Santo rabbits be killed and sent to him.
Asks whether ADB has got young from mating these with females of other breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 30 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Joseph Bradley Murray Collection (MS 363) Box 1, folder 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4758 |
To A. D. Bartlett 9 February [1865]
Summary
Inquires about body of Porto Santo rabbit which has not arrived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4768 |
To A. D. Bartlett 14 February [1865]
Summary
CD sends thanks for feather of the Gallus.
The rabbit arrived safely, but unfortunately the entrails had been removed; if ADB catches the other one, CD would like it sent unmutilated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 14 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4771 |
To A. D. Bartlett 16 February [1868]
Summary
Asks ADB to perform experiment on colour perception in bower-bird.
Asks for rabbit specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 16 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5401 |
To Abraham Dee Bartlett 9 December [1867]
Summary
Asks for name of the birds that have only once obtained summer plumage.
Wishes he could persuade ADB to experiment to see whether bower-birds prefer gay colours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5719 |
To Abraham Dee Bartlett 5 January [1870]
Summary
Thanks ADB for Limulus.
Does Callithrix sciureus wrinkle the skin around its eyes when it screams? Do the eyes become suffused with moisture?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 5 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7072 |
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 |