To P. L. Sclater 14 February [1860]
Down Bromley Kent
Feb. 14th
My dear Sir
Very sincere thanks for your kind information, which is very valuable to me.— I asked G. R. Gray about the Otus & Zenaida—but whether he will give me satisfactory information I know not.—1 I had intended asking you whether the Strix punctatissima & Pyrocephalus nanus differed in any degree whatever, in size & duskiness from the same species on the Mainland.2 This would be very interesting to me; but I fear I am too troublesome.—
With sincere thanks | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Birds: Pt 3 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By John Gould. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1839–41.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Thanks PLS for information about variation in birds. Asks for more information.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2695
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Philip Lutley Sclater
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.197)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2695,” accessed on 2 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2695.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8