Applies sexual selection to origin of dog race [deerhound]. Proposes descent from a large extinct dog.
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Applies sexual selection to origin of dog race [deerhound]. Proposes descent from a large extinct dog.
Will send deerhound puppy.
Is critical of Herbert Spencer.
Will send CD a deerhound puppy.
Reaffirms his statement that dogs in breeding form decided preferences toward each other, based on size, colour, or character.
CD’s deerhound puppy will be ready soon.
Delay in sending deerhound puppy.
Glad "Bran" [deerhound puppy] arrived safely.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
Praise for Expression.
Missed hostile review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Agrees it might be by J. H. Stirling [see 8935], who has written in a deplorably polemical style on Huxley and Sir William Hamilton.
J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Edinburgh intellectual climate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s visit to Edinburgh.
J. H. Stirling did not write anonymous review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Suggests T. Spencer Baynes of St Andrews. [? T. S. Baynes, "Darwin on expression", 137 (1873): 492–528.]
Responds to CD’s queries about breeders’ practices in destroying and saving males or females in litters of deerhounds.
Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.
Answers to queries are being sent.
Enclosure 1: statistics on puppies bred by Rayner in 1873.
Enclosure 2 from W. N. Massey: number of males or females raised depends entirely on preference of greyhound breeders.
Enclosure 3 from E. L. Williams: breeders prefer to destroy bitch pups.
Enclosure 4: Thomas Morse answers CD’s three queries, transmitted by GC: (1) in deerhounds, females predominate, three to one; (2) in all but cattle, females are less worth preserving; (3) TM rears all the young.
Enclosure 5: John Wright responds to CD’s queries about proportion of sexes in births of horses, cattle, and dogs.
Enclosure 6: G. W. Hickman cannot give reliable answers to CD’s queries on proportion of sexes born [in greyhounds?].
Promises answers to CD queries on dogs.
Enclosure 1: G. A. Graham responds to CD’s questions (transmitted by GC) on greyhound breeding and proportion of sexes reared.
Enclosure 2: J. W. Robertson’s general rule has been to preserve male deerhound puppies in preference to females.
Enclosure 3: Proportion of sexes in dog litters [for Descent, 2d ed.] from W. Forbes.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent, 2d ed.