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:
John Dean Caton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Oct] 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 167–9, DAR 161: 125
Summary:
Observations on lateral spots on coats of two specimens of deer. PS on habits of wild and domestic turkeys.
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:
John Dean Caton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 170–1
Summary:
Females have no preference for particular males in deer and elk. Observations on sexual behaviour and characteristics of elk, deer, bison, and other animals.
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:
John Dean Caton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 83: 172–4
Summary:
Observations on winter colour of coats of male and female elk,
spots on deer,
and tuft of hair on breasts of wild female turkeys.
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
From:
John Dean Caton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 126
Summary:
Thanks CD for acknowledging receipt of JDC’s book The antelope and deer of America [1877].
Castration suppresses deer antlers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project