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DCP-LETT-6157

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 283
Summary:

Has read Variation;

is preparing a monograph on Scotch deerhounds. Offers CD information on size of male and female deerhounds.

Might not the effect of human mother’s imagination on "character of offspring" support Pangenesis?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6169

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11–13 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 119–20, DAR 83: 121–6, DAR 85: B28
Summary:

Answers CD’s queries on difference in size of male and female Scottish deerhounds; female preference for larger males; details about ratio of sexes born. Quotes from letter of Archibald McNeill on difference in size of male and female Scotch deerhounds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6211

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 127–8
Summary:

Refers to letter from John Wright offering to help CD on his queries about deerhounds and sexual preferences.

More details about a terrier bitch previously referred to [letter missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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