From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 58–9
Summary:
On proportion of sexes in litters of dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Elliot
To:
George Cupples
Date:
21 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A60–1
Summary:
Proportion of sexes in lambs, before castration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Aitchison
To:
George Cupples
Date:
25 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A63–4
Summary:
Statistics on proportion of sexes of lambs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
William Aitchison
To:
George Cupples
Date:
30 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 66
Summary:
WA explains the figures he sent GC. In his experience female lambs at the time of castration outnumber the males. [Robert] Elliot differs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Oliver
To:
George Cupples
Date:
3 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 67
Summary:
Information about sexes of sheep at time of castration. Mortality of male lambs higher than that of females.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Graham
To:
George Cupples
Date:
6 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR A86: 68–9
Summary:
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle before eighteen months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Allan Cunningham Pagan
To:
George Cupples
Date:
16 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: B54–5
Summary:
Appends an eight-year list of lambs for CD’s private information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Rait
To:
George Cupples
Date:
20 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 70–1
Summary:
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 75
Summary:
Proportion of sexes in rats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–10 Nov 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 147
Summary:
Weight statistics on deerhound puppies born 23 Sept 1869.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 292
Summary:
Will send deerhound puppy.
Is critical of Herbert Spencer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 83: 142–3
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 293
Summary:
CD’s deerhound puppy will be ready soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 294
Summary:
Delay in sending deerhound puppy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 295
Summary:
Glad "Bran" [deerhound puppy] arrived safely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 296
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 111–12c
Summary:
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 297
Summary:
Praise for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 298
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project