Delay in sending deerhound puppy.
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Delay in sending deerhound puppy.
Glad "Bran" [deerhound puppy] arrived safely.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
Praise for Expression.
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.
J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Edinburgh intellectual climate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s visit to Edinburgh.
J. H. Stirling did not write anonymous review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Suggests T. Spencer Baynes of St Andrews. [? T. S. Baynes, "Darwin on expression", 137 (1873): 492–528.]
Responds to CD’s queries about breeders’ practices in destroying and saving males or females in litters of deerhounds.
Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.
Answers to queries are being sent.
Enclosure 1: statistics on puppies bred by Rayner in 1873.
Enclosure 2 from W. N. Massey: number of males or females raised depends entirely on preference of greyhound breeders.
Enclosure 3 from E. L. Williams: breeders prefer to destroy bitch pups.
Enclosure 4: Thomas Morse answers CD’s three queries, transmitted by GC: (1) in deerhounds, females predominate, three to one; (2) in all but cattle, females are less worth preserving; (3) TM rears all the young.
Enclosure 5: John Wright responds to CD’s queries about proportion of sexes in births of horses, cattle, and dogs.
Enclosure 6: G. W. Hickman cannot give reliable answers to CD’s queries on proportion of sexes born [in greyhounds?].
Promises answers to CD queries on dogs.
Enclosure 1: G. A. Graham responds to CD’s questions (transmitted by GC) on greyhound breeding and proportion of sexes reared.
Enclosure 2: J. W. Robertson’s general rule has been to preserve male deerhound puppies in preference to females.
Enclosure 3: Proportion of sexes in dog litters [for Descent, 2d ed.] from W. Forbes.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent, 2d ed.
No summary available.
Discusses the development of horns in reindeer and other deer.
Suggests that Cupples weigh puppies from one week old, rather than two weeks old.
Wishes Cupples had said something about health. Sends regards to Mrs Cupples.
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".
Many thanks for present of a dog: he will arrange its collection from the train whenit arrives in London.
He is correcting proofs of Descent, and will send GC a copy.
Will collect the "precious animal" [deerhound puppy] from King’s Cross.
Thanks GC for information on the perch.
Bran [deerhound puppy] is thriving; enjoys English life.