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Alfred Newton Correspondence

出版	1905
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tlWRtwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The collection consists of seven handwritten, signed letters from Newton: six to Manson-Bahr, between April 17, 1905, and Oct. 29, 1906; and the seventh from Newton to Van Voorst, dated Oct. 12, 1906. The first letter to Bahr (as his name was then) mentions an opportunity for fieldwork in the Arctic regions and refers to a letter from Col. Fielder for details. Other letters discuss the sound made by the feathers of birds in flight, especially snipes. Topics include obtaining tail feathers from Gallinago solitaria and other species for experiments; the identification of various birds by sight and sound; and an evaluation of Bahr's diagrams and drawings, some of observations made by microscope. Newton compares their findings on feather-noises to those of Meves and John Hancock, debates a presentation to the "Govt. Society" [Royal Society?], and anticipates controversy with [James E.] Harting. The letter to Van Voorst concerns the Oct. 1906 issue of the Ibis, which Newton has just received.