Obliged for letter about horns of sheep.
Mentions case of death from objects impacted in appendix.
Is aware of his error about snipe breeding.
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Obliged for letter about horns of sheep.
Mentions case of death from objects impacted in appendix.
Is aware of his error about snipe breeding.
Sends copy of a paper on his flock of sheep, which confirms much of what CD says in Variation,
together with a note he made of an instance of cattle "determining the existence" of a tree [cf. Origin, ch. 3].
Proportions of male and female lambs.
On the vermiform appendix,
snipes breeding in England,
and the horns of crossbred sheep.