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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.195)
Summary:

Thanks PLS for list of Galapagos birds.

Mentions note he will add to Journal [of researches (1860)]

and correction he will make in Origin [3d ed. (1861)].

Asks PLS about variability in "abnormal parts of birds".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
14 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.197)
Summary:

Thanks PLS for information about variation in birds. Asks for more information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
22 May [1860-81]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (1987)
Summary:

CD has signed the enclosed with great pleasure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.239)
Summary:

Asks for a rabbit specimen;

inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
12 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.240)
Summary:

Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].

Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
23 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.241)
Summary:

Asks about distribution of Gallus and about description of Gallus temminckii, G. R. Gray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
21 [Apr 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.245)
Summary:

Asks about species of Opetiorhynchus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.246)
Summary:

CD is unable to locate his specimens of two Falkland Island birds [Opetiorhynchus].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
2 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.252)
Summary:

Discusses feral rabbits of Porto Santo. Arranges for care of rabbits while the Darwins visit Torquay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
12 May [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.276)
Summary:

Asks for information about japanned peacocks from Hudson [John Henry?] Gurney’s flock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
14 May [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.277)
Summary:

Asks for information about peacocks, especially Pavo nigripennis. Suggests a crossing experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
6 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.311)
Summary:

Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.

Notes improvement in health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
24 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.324)
Summary:

Encloses a portion of a letter from B. D. Walsh [5319] concerning an American interested in exchanging birds’ skins.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
9 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.338)
Summary:

Asks for index to Zoological Society’s Proceedings.

Mentions article on "Barbets" by PLS in Intellectual Observer [12 (1867–8): 241–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
28 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.345)
Summary:

Bird specimens collected by Capt. P. P. King eventually went to British Museum, but many specimens were incorrectly marked.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
30 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.383)
Summary:

Encloses, for publication, note about Pampas woodpecker, opposing W. H. Hudson [see 7354].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin))
Summary:

Asks PLS whether he will look over list of names of birds [for Descent] to make sure they are spelled correctly. "I have a most unfortunate weakness … to copy proper names incorrectly".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
9 Nov 1870
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin))
Summary:

Thanks PLS for his generous offer to go over the part on birds [in Descent]. Does not think PLS realises that there are more than 200 pages – most of which will have nothing new for him.

W. H. Hudson’s proofs have arrived ["Letters on the ornithology of Buenos Ayres", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1870): 87–9, 158–60, 332–4, 545–50, 671–3, 748–50, 798–82; (1871): 4–7, 258–62, 326–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
11 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Kotte Autographs (dealers) (April 2019)
Summary:

Accepts PLS’s offer to read proofs of [Descent].

W. H. Hudson’s paper is interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
21 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin))
Summary:

Sends two sheets [of Descent] for correction of names of birds. PLS will save him many disgraceful misspellings. Descent now being prepared in five foreign editions.

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Darwin Correspondence Project