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From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 48
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
19 September [1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.439
Summary:

Sending 35 letters, has 20 more that she will send later if she would like to see them. Wishes she had the photographs of insects. Thinks an appendix of all the riddles would be amusing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project