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DCP-LETT-1870F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
9 May [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 248–9)
Summary:

Has seen EWVH’s list of the birds of Madeira, and would like to know more about the ‘occasional visitants’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1883

From:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1856
Source of text:
DAR 166: 100
Summary:

Extensive notes on Madeiran birds: when and where seen on the island and under what conditions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1885F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
1 June [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 250–1)
Summary:

Thanks for the very detailed information sent by EWVH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1900F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
12 June [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 252–4)
Summary:

Would like to compare the length of the wings of non-migratory and migratory swallows.

Wonders if EWVH could show him skins of Columba livia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1909F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
24 June [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 255–7)
Summary:

Thanks EWVH for his offer but he is not likely to go to London soon to visit John Leadbeater, the bird dealer; he could take a rock pigeon for comparison, but other skins he would have compare at the British Museum.

Would be obliged if EWVH could investigate domestic species in Egypt, especially a type of dog depicted in ancient monuments; and he is particularly interested in tumbler pigeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1451

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
19 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Asks to borrow C. L. Brehm’s book [Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands (1831)]. Wants to see how far Brehm went in splitting species.

Took finches from Madeira to British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4598

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
23 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Has received [C. L.?] Brehm’s work [unspecified]. Will return it in two or three weeks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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