From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 172–3
Summary:
Notes on sexual differences within certain species of birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
1 June 1868
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 18, DAR 205.3: 288 (Letters), DAR 84.2: 79-82, 85–6, DAR 86: C22, C24
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
23 June [1868]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
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.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project