From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 204
Summary:
The Japan pig, an unusual domestic species with no wild prototype.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 205
Summary:
Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16];
his attacks on CD and his theories.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 206
Summary:
Agrees with CD’s estimate of the man [unidentified]. Hopes CD will use his influence with Lubbock to try to prevent the Council’s placing him at the head of the Zoological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 207
Summary:
Cites case of Owen’s getting compiler’s name removed from title of a British Museum catalogue.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 208
Summary:
Cites instance in which different varieties of same species of plant flourished side by side under same conditions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 209
Summary:
Has received the larva of the batrachian. Outlines its affinities. Problems of batrachian systematics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 210
Summary:
Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 211
Summary:
Tameness of whales and porpoises.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 165: 212
Summary:
Thanks for skins and skeletons.
Has been arranging sponges [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 495–558].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
