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DCP-LETT-5839

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 213
Summary:

Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.

Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].

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DCP-LETT-5846

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 214
Summary:

Would like a look at Nathusius.

Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.

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DCP-LETT-5875

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 215
Summary:

JEG and Nathusius on pigs.

Reference to JEG’s paper on African and Indian cats [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 258–77, 874–6].

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DCP-LETT-5880

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 216
Summary:

Slashing article on Variation in Athenæum.

Discussion of relationships of various pigs.

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DCP-LETT-5885

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
17 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 234)
Summary:

Thanks for Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].

CD will call on JEG to hear his views on specific differences of pigs.

Does not know who has "cut me up so severely" in the Athenæum but suspects "your great man in the Museum" [Richard Owen].

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DCP-LETT-5886

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 217
Summary:

JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].

Colouring in horses.

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DCP-LETT-5970

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 159–60
Summary:

Canine teeth in males are always larger than in females and certainly so in Cervulus moschus.

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DCP-LETT-5970G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
2 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Winterbourne House and Garden, University of Birmingham (University Herbarium) (WBHERB.HST.L.25.1)
Summary:

Thanks JEG for answering questions so fully and clearly, especially as he is troubled with his eyes.

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