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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Bartlett
Date:
1 July [1871]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Thanks for ducks’ skins, for which he encloses postal order.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 49
Summary:

Reports on variations in the development of lamellae and how the bills are used in several kinds of geese. Will send skins for examination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 50
Summary:

Lists [with prices] four birds that he has forwarded to CD.

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

Thanks for goose specimens.

Asks whether Egyptian goose throws water out of side of beak. Can it tear herbage like the domestic goose?

[Mistakenly dated 16 Sept by CD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Bartlett
Date:
15 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3(3))
Summary:

Asks for information on feeding habits of Egyptian goose.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 51
Summary:

Replies on how Egyptian geese feed in the water; they do not move heads laterally like ducks sifting water; they tear herbage like common geese.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Bartlett
Date:
17 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Gerard A. J. Stodolski (dealer) (January 2022, item 210266)
Summary:

Thanks for note received.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project