From:
Allan Cunningham Pagan
To:
George Cupples
Date:
16 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: B54–5
Summary:
Appends an eight-year list of lambs for CD’s private information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Appends an eight-year list of lambs for CD’s private information.
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle.
Proportion of sexes in rats.
Weight statistics on deerhound puppies born 23 Sept 1869.
Thanks GC for his assistance. "The data for all that I have to say about the Scotch deer-hound are, owing to you, almost sufficient; and much better data than I have got in many other cases." [See Descent 2: 260.]
Believes Dr Stirling would be compelled to admit some change in "the famous protoplasm in our domestic races, both in regard to the structure of the body & qualities of the mind".