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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
10 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
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?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 20
Summary:

Promises to answer questions about ducks next week when he has a specimen.

Recently met Capt. Arthur Mellersh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project