From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
1 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project