From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
31 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.325)
Summary:
Asks GHKT about eyes of screaming elephants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks GHKT about eyes of screaming elephants.
Asks whether mane in male of Macacus silenus protects it from bites or is merely ornamental.
GHKT should not take more trouble about human expression. Discusses contraction of orbicular muscles in elephants.
Asks about colour of first plumage of breeds of Ceylon fowls in which hens alone are coloured.
Thanks GHKT and S. O. Glenie for information about fowls.
Asks him to thank E. L. Layard for trouble taken.
Says Zoological Society "very foolishly" wants no specimens of domestic varieties [from Ceylon].
Encloses Queries about expression.
Discusses experiments in breeding fowls.
Comments on letter from S. O. Glenie [see 6440] concerning the eyes of trumpeting elephants.