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DCP-LETT-4273

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
24 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Sends copy of Origin.

Discusses stripes on hybrid of donkey and wild ass.

Will let ADB know if lady consents to sending rabbits to [Zoological] Gardens.

Asks about gestation of Canidae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3159

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
26 May [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Bearer brings three Porto Santo rabbits. Will ADB keep them and see whether they can be crossed with some other breed? CD believes they have become much reduced in size and modified in colour since their introduction into the island.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4758

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
30 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Joseph Bradley Murray Collection (MS 363) Box 1, folder 4)
Summary:

Orders that one of CD’s Porto Santo rabbits be killed and sent to him.

Asks whether ADB has got young from mating these with females of other breeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
9 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Inquires about body of Porto Santo rabbit which has not arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4771

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
14 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for feather of the Gallus.

The rabbit arrived safely, but unfortunately the entrails had been removed; if ADB catches the other one, CD would like it sent unmutilated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5719

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
9 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks for name of the birds that have only once obtained summer plumage.

Wishes he could persuade ADB to experiment to see whether bower-birds prefer gay colours.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5401

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
16 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 7)
Summary:

Asks ADB to perform experiment on colour perception in bower-bird.

Asks for rabbit specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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