From Osbert Salvin 21 September 1871
32, Grove, Boltons. S.W.
21 Sept. 1871
My dear Mr Darwin,
I must apologize to you for not answering your questions about Ducks sooner.1 I have been from home & did not like to write from memory. I now find that I have not a specimen of the common Duck by me but shall have one today.2 I shall then be able to go into the question & will forward you my observations not later than early next week.
Very truly yours | Osbert Salvin.
I lately met an old ‘Beagle’ officer, Capt Mellersh, who is now living close to my Father in Sussex.3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Promises to answer questions about ducks next week when he has a specimen.
Recently met Capt. Arthur Mellersh.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7960
- From
- Osbert Salvin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Brompton
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 20
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7960,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7960.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
