From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 136
Summary:
Explains some proof-correcting symbols to be used by WED [on Origin, 6th ed. proofs?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1871?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.623)
Summary:
Thanks for note concerning JP’s new book [Geology of Oxford (1871)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
1 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:
He appreciates the two specimens [skins of Mergenetta and Aix sponsa], especially the Mergenetta, which as far as sifting is concerned, is a capital link between the shoveller and the common duck. Arrangements for their return.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
1 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 185: 111
Summary:
JS should not consider repaying CD; the money was a gift, not a loan.
JS’s information on expression is the best he has received.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project