From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 204
Summary:
The Japan pig, an unusual domestic species with no wild prototype.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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The Japan pig, an unusual domestic species with no wild prototype.
Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16];
his attacks on CD and his theories.
Agrees with CD’s estimate of the man [unidentified]. Hopes CD will use his influence with Lubbock to try to prevent the Council’s placing him at the head of the Zoological Society.
Cites case of Owen’s getting compiler’s name removed from title of a British Museum catalogue.