To Philip Lutley Sclater 28 February [1868]
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Feb. 28
Dear Sclater
My impression is that Capt. King’s Birds were given first to Zoolog. Soc. & that ultimately they went to Brit. Museum.1 But the habitats were badly kept, I have known Cape de Verde2 & I think Brazilian species marked “Tierra del Fuego”. Almost everything collected was thus marked.
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Narrative: Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] 3 vols. and appendix. London: Henry Colburn. 1839.
Summary
Bird specimens collected by Capt. P. P. King eventually went to British Museum, but many specimens were incorrectly marked.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5948
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Philip Lutley Sclater
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.345)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5948,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5948.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
