From:
Robert Elliot
To:
George Cupples
Date:
25 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A65
Summary:
Number of lambs born not kept. Counted only at time of castration.
Proportion of sexes in cattle and rats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.