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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 213
Summary:

Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.

Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 214
Summary:

Would like a look at Nathusius.

Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 215
Summary:

JEG and Nathusius on pigs.

Reference to JEG’s paper on African and Indian cats [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 258–77, 874–6].

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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 216
Summary:

Slashing article on Variation in Athenæum.

Discussion of relationships of various pigs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
17 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 234)
Summary:

Thanks for Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].

CD will call on JEG to hear his views on specific differences of pigs.

Does not know who has "cut me up so severely" in the Athenæum but suspects "your great man in the Museum" [Richard Owen].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 217
Summary:

JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].

Colouring in horses.

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