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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Asks about camouflage of birds in the Sahara desert.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
4 July 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9485)
Summary:

Thanks for interesting letter. ‘How very curious the case of the bright-coloured birds which conceal themselves in holes!’

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
8 Sept 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9485)
Summary:

Thanks for answers to questions, but declines loan of specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
16 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 148: 148
Summary:

Asks HBT to sign certificate [for Royal Society] for Robert Swinhoe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
26 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Wheldon & Wesley (dealers) (1984)
Summary:

Asks HBT whether he received the certificate nominating Robert Swinhoe for the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
3 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
New York Academy of Medicine (MS 14)
Summary:

Thanks HBT for all the trouble he has taken for Robert Swinhoe and himself. Will try to get six signatures on a new certificate and deliver it to the Royal Society in time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project