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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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 38–9
Summary:

On the summer, or breeding, plumage of birds.

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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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
5 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks ADB for Limulus.

Does Callithrix sciureus wrinkle the skin around its eyes when it screams? Do the eyes become suffused with moisture?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

CD questions ADB on the mode of feeding of geese and on the existence of variations in the structure of the bill; is trying to trace gradations in structure and habits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 48
Summary:

Geese do not commonly sift water through their bills for food, as they feed on land. A few have well-developed lamellae for sifting. Will have his son check at Zoological Garden.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
20 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether any goose sifts water with its beak.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
19 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Can ADB allow T. W. Wood to sketch one of his dogs in hostile and friendly positions?

Do elephants in the Zoological Gardens carry tails aloft when excited?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 47
Summary:

Reports aggressive reactions of three kinds of porcupines to a snake, concluding that in the wild they would probably kill and eat it [see Expression, pp. 93–4]

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