RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1869.05.29. Dr Engleheart off a single nest shot 35 starlings. CUL-DAR84.2.211v. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Darwin cited this in Descen 2: 106.
"Engleheart, Stephen Paul, 1831?-85. 1859 Fellow Royal College of Surgeons, London. 1861-70 Village surgeon/physician at Down, known to Darwin family as "Spengle". Drowned in Old Calabar, Nigeria, Africa, trying to visit a patient." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)
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Dr Engleheart off a single nest shot 35 starlings, & yet brood reared, & is certain that of the 35 some males & some females. [3 words illeg]
Analogous cases for years.
May 29 /69/
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