To Henry Denny 5 February [1844]1
Down Bromley | Kent
Feb 5
Dear Sir
The specimen ticketed on green 153 is from the Condor,2 Chile
Red 395 is from a Hawk, killed at Maldonado on banks of Rio Plata.—3 I believe the Hawk is the Circus megaspilus (v. Zoolog of Beagle’s Voyage. Part Birds).4 But at some time Mr. Waterhouse could probably tell you from the catalogue of the Zoological Soc. what hawk has my number 13965
Red 3⟨35⟩ from Procellaria glacialoides H. Smith. killed in Lat 43° S. coast of Patagonia (v Zoolog. Beagle’s Voyage Birds p. 140)6
Green 561. from Man.7
I send you some rough (which must not be quoted verbatim) notes on subject, which please return sometime. I have specimens in Spirits, of this Louse, which I could sometime get out, if you wished it— Would you be so obliging as sometime to inform me, whether you believe in Mr Martiall’s story, as given in my notes.8
With my best wishes | Believe me | dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin
P.S. Would you be so kind as also to inform me sometime whether the Human Pediculus is the Europæan species 9
Footnotes
Bibliography
Smith, Kenneth G. V. 1987. Darwin’s insects: Charles Darwin’s entomological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical series 14: 1–143.
Summary
Dicussion of some specimens from the Beagle voyage.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-734F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Denny
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Jeremy and Helen Evans (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 734F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-734F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)