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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[Feb 1838]
Source of text:
William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 20, April 2014)
Summary:

The publishers [of Zoology] have agreed to 50 plates [for Birds]. Asks JG to decide which are most worthy of being done. Also asks him to see whether Bayfield will undertake [to colour] the birds (and quadrupeds) at something under 5d each.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[13 Apr 1838]
Source of text:
Dr Daniel C. Devor (private collection)
Summary:

Gives best wishes for Gould’s trip to Australia.

Notes on Synallaxis behaviour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Gould
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Apr] 1838
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Tring Museum Correspondence)
Summary:

Thanks CD for his present of a dram bottle [actually a silver-cased compass]. JG will be reminded daily of their friendship when he is in the wilds [of Australia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[after 1 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Summary:

Feels he cannot keep the gift of Gould’s "magnificent work" or take out a subscription now that he is a married man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[c. Oct 1846]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 4251: 329
Summary:

Recommends Ernst Dieffenbach for expedition to Guatemala.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
6 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 4251/330)
Summary:

Thanks for JG’s book [An introduction to the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds (1861)], which he has read carefully. Hopes someday to use the information on the close alliance of species in large genera.

CD repudiates hybridity of birds in nature.

Intends to extract the cases of "races" or doubtful species. They show that "determination of species is not a simple affair".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[before 10 May 1866?]
Source of text:
Jeff Weber, Rare Books (dealer) (October 2018)
Summary:

Asks for the name of a hummingbird.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Gould
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 20–1
Summary:

Gives CD genus and species names of the singular humming-bird; distressed by specific name made necessary by revised laws of nomenclature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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