From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
29 May [1868]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016)
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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".