From F. T. Buckland [before 1 February 1863]1
and will get you to see my Salmon hatching at The Field window.2 By the way the Editor of The Field3 requests me to inform you that he would feel much pleased if you would send any natural history Quæries which would be likely to elicit discussion as there are so many correspondents who have every opportunity of practical observation
Yours ever | most truly | F Buckland
I have been asked to examine a cross between a duck & a fowl—it wont do my experience show me that people coin a story & tell it so many times that at last they believe it themselves. This is case with
1 Viper swallowing her young.4
2 Dog & Fox Cross
3 Toad in a hole question5
cum multis aliis6 &c &c &c &c
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Barber, Lynn. 1980. The heyday of natural history, 1820–1870. London: Jonathan Cape.
Rose, R. N. 1953. The Field, 1853–1953. London: Michael Joseph.
Summary
Invites CD to visit offices of the Field; editor wishes CD to place natural history inquiries there.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3960
- From
- Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 356
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3960,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3960.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11