From Osbert Salvin 12 May 1863
Summary
Has just returned from collecting in Central America and is planning to go to the Galapagos to gather specimens in all branches of natural history.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4155 |
From Osbert Salvin [1868?]
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 172–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5758 |
From Osbert Salvin 20 June 1868
Summary
Shot a sandpiper in Norway, the hind toe of which was clasped by a freshwater bivalve.
Sends replies to CD’s queries about sex ratios in humming-birds.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 18, DAR 205.3: 288 (Letters), DAR 84.2: 79-82, 85–6, DAR 86: C22, C24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6253 |
From Osbert Salvin 24 June 1870
Summary
Publication Committee of Zoological Society has granted CD use of woodblock from the Society’s Proceedings.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7243 |
From Osbert Salvin 21 September 1871
Summary
Promises to answer questions about ducks next week when he has a specimen.
Recently met Capt. Arthur Mellersh.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7960 |
From Osbert Salvin 10 October 1871
Summary
Encloses notes [missing] that he has made for CD on looking through his dried skins of American Anatidae.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8001 |
From Osbert Salvin 14 October 1871
Summary
Is glad his notes on ducks are useful; would like them back when CD has finished with them as they might help him to put the South American Anatidae in order.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8009 |
From Osbert Salvin 18 October 1871
Summary
Comments on lamellae in Prion. Offers to send specimen for CD to examine.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8016 |
From Osbert Salvin 22 October 1871
Summary
Sends specimen of Prion.
Discusses beaks of flamingo and other birds.
Comments on function of lamellae.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8029 |
From Osbert Salvin 30 October 1871
Summary
Sends CD some more ducks’ skins so that he can examine the lamellae.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8035 |
To Osbert Salvin 22 August [1875]
Summary
Obliged for his memoir ["On the avifauna of the Galapagos", Trans. Zool. Soc. (April 1875)]. His surprise that the birds from the different islands prove so similar. Comparison of the habits, nests, eggs of the commonest species of each island would throw a flood of light upon variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 22 Aug [1875] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10132A |
To Osbert Salvin 11 [May 1863]
Summary
At the suggestion of J. D. Hooker CD offers his opinion on the value of a proposed collection to be made at the Galápagos. The display would not be attractive or appealing to amateurs in natural history, but the scientific value of good collections of every species would be very great if those of each island are rigorously kept separate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 11 [May 1863] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153A |
To Osbert Salvin 1 June 1868
Summary
Encloses some queries.
Would also like information about proportion of male to female humming-birds.
Reference to OS’s paper in Ibis, vol. 2.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 1 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6221A |
To Osbert Salvin 23 June [1868]
Summary
CD thanks OS for answering his questions and especially for giving the case of the sandpiper; "such little facts are my delight". [See 6253.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 23 June [1868] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6258A |
To Osbert Salvin 10 September [1871]
Summary
CD is interested in the gradation of character in the lamellae of the beaks of ducks. He finds that they are less developed or prominent in the common duck and goose than in true ducks. Is OS able to provide him with any information on this subject?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7932A |
To Osbert Salvin 12 October [1871]
Summary
CD appreciates the great trouble OS has taken in providing a bundle of observations. [See 8001.] They are useful and will save CD from at least one blunder.
The structure of the beak of the shoveller "filled me with admiration".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 12 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8005A |
To Osbert Salvin 19 October [1871]
Summary
CD would like to see the Prion [see 8016]. May he immerse the head in warm water so as to open the beak? Directions for sending the parcel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 19 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8019A |
To Osbert Salvin 25 October [1871]
Summary
Very glad to see Prion. [See 8029.]
CD offers OS upper and lower beaks of various ducks and geese if they are of interest to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 25 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8031A |
To Osbert Salvin 1 November [1871]
Summary
He appreciates the two specimens [skins of Mergenetta and Aix sponsa], especially the Mergenetta, which as far as sifting is concerned, is a capital link between the shoveller and the common duck. Arrangements for their return.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8045A |
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