To Philip Lutley Sclater 4 March [1861]
Summary
Asks for a rabbit specimen;
inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.239) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3080 |
To P. L. Sclater 12 [March 1861]
Summary
Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].
Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 12 [Mar 1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.240) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3086 |
To P. L. Sclater 23 March [1861]
Summary
Asks about distribution of Gallus and about description of Gallus temminckii, G. R. Gray.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.241) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3096 |
From P. L. Sclater 17 April 1861
Summary
Corrects CD’s statement [Origin, 3d ed.] that Madeira does not possess one peculiar bird. There is one, out of the 99.
| Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3121 |
To P. L. Sclater 21 [April 1861]
Summary
Asks about species of Opetiorhynchus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 21 [Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.245) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3123 |
To P. L. Sclater 4 May [1861]
Summary
CD is unable to locate his specimens of two Falkland Island birds [Opetiorhynchus].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 4 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.246) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3138 |
To P. L. Sclater 2 June [1861]
Summary
Discusses feral rabbits of Porto Santo. Arranges for care of rabbits while the Darwins visit Torquay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 2 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.252) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3173 |
Document type
| letter | (7) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Addressee
| Sclater, P. L. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (7) |
