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DCP-LETT-6555

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 289
Summary:

Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6566

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 290; DAR 86: A81–2
Summary:

Forwards reply from [Peter Robertson] head forester for Marquis of Breadalbane on development of horns in Scottish deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6657

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 133–8, DAR 161: 282
Summary:

Differences in size and weight in deerhounds, with tables of comparative weights according to sex. Promises information on weights of deerhound puppies. Effects of cross- and inbreeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6679

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 291
Summary:

Will look for sex ratio statistics.

Will weigh pups.

Deerhound breeding;

wolves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6770

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B56
Summary:

Note on proportion of sexes born in sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6789

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 58–9
Summary:

On proportion of sexes in litters of dogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6889

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 75
Summary:

Proportion of sexes in rats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6970

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–10 Nov 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 147
Summary:

Weight statistics on deerhound puppies born 23 Sept 1869.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7177

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 292
Summary:

Will send deerhound puppy.

Is critical of Herbert Spencer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7237

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 83: 142–3
Summary:

Will send CD a deerhound puppy.

Reaffirms his statement that dogs in breeding form decided preferences toward each other, based on size, colour, or character.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7321

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 293
Summary:

CD’s deerhound puppy will be ready soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7338

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 294
Summary:

Delay in sending deerhound puppy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7369

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 295
Summary:

Glad "Bran" [deerhound puppy] arrived safely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7502

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 296
Summary:

Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7707

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 111–12c
Summary:

On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.

Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8621

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 297
Summary:

Praise for Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8891

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 298
Summary:

Missed hostile review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Agrees it might be by J. H. Stirling [see 8935], who has written in a deplorably polemical style on Huxley and Sir William Hamilton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8935

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 299
Summary:

J. V. Carus’ lecture.

Edinburgh intellectual climate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s visit to Edinburgh.

J. H. Stirling did not write anonymous review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Suggests T. Spencer Baynes of St Andrews. [? T. S. Baynes, "Darwin on expression", 137 (1873): 492–528.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9263

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 85–90
Summary:

Responds to CD’s queries about breeders’ practices in destroying and saving males or females in litters of deerhounds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9274

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 300
Summary:

Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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