To P. L. Sclater   5 December 1870

Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.

Dec 5th 1870

My dear Mr Sclater,

I send by this post 3 sheets, & tomorrow I will send another. This, with the exception of about 34 of a sheet, completes the part on birds, & I sincerely congratulate you and thank you for your labour will then be completed.1 Some of the sheets are terribly corrected, but they are chiefly parts in which few names are included. I am so tired with my work that I shall leave this place before post time on Thursday the 8th, & shall stay at “6 Queen Anne Street” for a week.2 I will call some early day to see you.

Yours very truly obliged | Ch. Darwin

LS(A)

1
Sclater had agreed to check lists of birds’ names in Descent for CD (see letter to P. L. Sclater, 4 November [1870]). The chapters on birds are in Descent 2: 36–238. Sclater also checked the two chapters on mammals (Descent 2: 239–315; see Descent 2: 238 n. 59).
2
CD stayed at his brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house in London from 8 to 14 December 1870 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.3 of the] in CD’s hand above del ‘other’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7387F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7387F