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DCP-LETT-8005A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
12 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:

CD appreciates the great trouble OS has taken in providing a bundle of observations. [See 8001.] They are useful and will save CD from at least one blunder.

The structure of the beak of the shoveller "filled me with admiration".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8019A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
19 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:

CD would like to see the Prion [see 8016]. May he immerse the head in warm water so as to open the beak? Directions for sending the parcel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8031A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
25 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:

Very glad to see Prion. [See 8029.]

CD offers OS upper and lower beaks of various ducks and geese if they are of interest to him.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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