From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 290
Summary:
Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.
Sends photo of four Fuegians, including Jemmy Button’s son.
Reports incident of two wild stallions on the Falklands acting together in an attempt to take a troop of mares from an introduced English horse [see Descent 2: 241].
Writes of his son’s affairs.
Is reading Variation and discusses a point relating to feeding habits of horses.
CD thanks BJS for photographs of Jemmy [Button]’s son
and for the curious case about stallions, which leads him to ask whether BJS has observed that horses when fighting try especially to bite each other’s necks.
Does he know anything about male seals fighting?