His correspondents in Lapland will provide CD with the information on reindeer horns. Refers him to Linnaeus, Amoenitates academicae, vol. 4.
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His correspondents in Lapland will provide CD with the information on reindeer horns. Refers him to Linnaeus, Amoenitates academicae, vol. 4.
Thanks SN for the reference about the reindeer, received via Hooker.
CD wishes to ascertain whether there is any relation between the period of development of a character and its transmission to one sex alone.
On the development of horns in Lapland reindeer. [See Descent 1: 288.]
Thanks SN for the trouble he has taken for him [on Lapland reindeer horns].