From Louis Sulpice Bouton to Charles Tilstone Beke1 24 September [1856]2
Mon cher Mr Beke
Je vais faire des recherches à tête reposée dans le Museum & les Transactions pouvoir vous envoyer plus tard des renseignements plus précis—3
T à vs | L. Bouton 24 Sep
Extrait d’une lettre de M Autard de Bragard— Savane—4 17 Sept— 1856
En 1835—36—ou 37, j’ai envoyé à la Société d’histoire naturelle un Merle huppé de Bourbon5 “Turdus cafer” pris au Morne Brabant peu de temps après un coup de vent— aussi un autre oiseau tué à la Savane reconnu appartenir à une espèce de Madagascar—
Vous trouverez ces individus au Museum et ce qui les concerne inséré dans les transactions de la Société—
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Translation
From Louis Sulpice Bouton to Charles Tilstone Beke1 24 September [1856]2
My dear Mr Beke
I shall do some research at leisure in the Museum & and in the Transactions on the subject referred to in order to be able to send you later more precise details—3
Ever yours | L. Bouton
24 Sep
Extract from a letter of M Autard de Bragard— Savanne—4 17 Sept— 1856
In 1835—36—or 37, I sent to the Natural History Society a crested thrush from Bourbon5 “Turdus cafer” taken at Morne Brabant a short time after a hurricane— Also another bird killed in the Savanne known to belong to a Madagascan species—
You will find these specimens in the Museum and details concerning them in the transactions of the Society—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Sends extract from a correspondent’s letter reporting birds carried to Mauritius from Madagascar by winds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1961
- From
- Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton
- To
- Charles Tilstone Beke
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 205.3: 262
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp (French) † (by CD)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1961,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1961.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
