My dear Mr. Salvin
I shd. very much like to see the Prion, if the specimen is not very precious; for the case has a special bearing on my subject.2 But I must restrict myself to a few words, as I have already said too much.
Please enclose a scrap, saying whether I may immerse the head alone in warm (not hot) water, so as to open the beak? Of course I do not wish to do so if specimen is precious.—
I suspect that your lower mandibular lamellæ serve to clean the upper lamellæ; & if you ever go into subject pray keep this in mind. Yours very truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Address
C. Darwin Esq
Orpington Station
Kent
per South-Eastern Railway.
(I will send in two days to Station for chance of parcels being there.—)
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8019A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on