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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:
12 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is much interested in FB’s remarks in Land and Water on the apparent excess of male trout over females and asks for further information on other fish, birds, and domestic quadrupeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
12 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 64)
Summary:

Is interested in the relative numbers of males and females of all animals; wants any instances of males, or females, being in excess.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project