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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 143: 253
Summary:

Thanks JDC for paper ["American Cervus", Trans. Ottawa Acad. Nat. Sci. (1868); read 21 May 1868].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
20 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 254
Summary:

Asks about coat colour of elk,

the mane of American bison,

and about sexual preferences of female deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
24 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 255
Summary:

Discusses secondary hoofs in antelope and deer.

Mentions tuft of hair on turkey hen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
20 July 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.402)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for his sons [G. H. and Francis Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project