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DCP-LETT-8067

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 81
Summary:

News of progress of German editions of Origin

and Descent.

Asks CD for references on chabius – a Chilean hybrid of goat and sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
17 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 80–81)
Summary:

CD offers to mark corrected passages in sheets of 6th edition of Origin.

Discusses question of hybrids between goats and sheep, on which H. von Nathusius has cast doubt in his recent Viehzucht [1872]. CD gives several references for a contrary view.

Asks JVC to inquire about HvN’s assertion that castrated rams have no horns.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8077

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 117–118
Summary:

Horns of castrated merino rams remain almost undeveloped.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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