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From:
John Robert Goodwin Barr
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[after 11 May 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B27
Summary:

Sends replies on dogs – sexual differences and preferences.

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[6–9? Jan 1869]
Source of text:
Cupples 1894, p. 165
Summary:

Discusses the development of horns in reindeer and other deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
18 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
Former collection of Pr. Georges Teissier (private collection)
Summary:

Suggests that Cupples weigh puppies from one week old, rather than two weeks old.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Elliot
To:
George Cupples
Date:
4 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A30–1, A62
Summary:

Proportion of sexes in (new-born) lambs equal, but males more likely to die.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Aitchison
To:
George Cupples
Date:
16 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A54–5
Summary:

Statistics on proportion of sexes in lambs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Russell
To:
George Cupples
Date:
18 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 56–7
Summary:

On the proportion of sexes in lambs.

Contributor:
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From:
Robert Elliot
To:
George Cupples
Date:
21 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A60–1
Summary:

Proportion of sexes in lambs, before castration.

Contributor:
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From:
William Aitchison
To:
George Cupples
Date:
25 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A63–4
Summary:

Statistics on proportion of sexes of lambs.

Contributor:
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From:
Robert Elliot
To:
George Cupples
Date:
25 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A65
Summary:

Number of lambs born not kept. Counted only at time of castration.

Proportion of sexes in cattle and rats.

Contributor:
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From:
William Aitchison
To:
George Cupples
Date:
30 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 66
Summary:

WA explains the figures he sent GC. In his experience female lambs at the time of castration outnumber the males. [Robert] Elliot differs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[after June 1869]
Source of text:
Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (2013)
Summary:

Wishes Cupples had said something about health. Sends regards to Mrs Cupples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Oliver
To:
George Cupples
Date:
3 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 67
Summary:

Information about sexes of sheep at time of castration. Mortality of male lambs higher than that of females.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Graham
To:
George Cupples
Date:
6 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR A86: 68–9
Summary:

Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle before eighteen months.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Allan Cunningham Pagan
To:
George Cupples
Date:
16 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: B54–5
Summary:

Appends an eight-year list of lambs for CD’s private information.

Contributor:
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From:
James Rait
To:
George Cupples
Date:
20 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 70–1
Summary:

Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
20 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 4127 II, 4to)
Summary:

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".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
20 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
Christie’s, New York (dealers) (19 December 2002, lot 41)
Summary:

Many thanks for present of a dog: he will arrange its collection from the train whenit arrives in London.

He is correcting proofs of Descent, and will send GC a copy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
3 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Will collect the "precious animal" [deerhound puppy] from King’s Cross.

Thanks GC for information on the perch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
27 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Bran [deerhound puppy] is thriving; enjoys English life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project