From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 38–9
Summary:
On the summer, or breeding, plumage of birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Johnson Raybould
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
22 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 25
Summary:
Offers a polydactylous cat to the Zoological Gardens. [Offer declined and letter forwarded to CD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 47
Summary:
Reports aggressive reactions of three kinds of porcupines to a snake, concluding that in the wild they would probably kill and eat it [see Expression, pp. 93–4]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
