On the proportion of sexes in lambs.
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On the proportion of sexes in lambs.
On proportion of sexes in litters of dogs.
Proportion of sexes in lambs, before castration.
Statistics on proportion of sexes of lambs.
Number of lambs born not kept. Counted only at time of castration.
Proportion of sexes in cattle and rats.
WA explains the figures he sent GC. In his experience female lambs at the time of castration outnumber the males. [Robert] Elliot differs.
Information about sexes of sheep at time of castration. Mortality of male lambs higher than that of females.
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle before eighteen months.
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".