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DCP-LETT-5873

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 188–9, DAR 177: 291
Summary:

Sends photo of four Fuegians, including Jemmy Button’s son.

Reports incident of two wild stallions on the Falklands acting together in an attempt to take a troop of mares from an introduced English horse [see Descent 2: 241].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5889

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
18 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD thanks BJS for photographs of Jemmy [Button]’s son

and for the curious case about stallions, which leads him to ask whether BJS has observed that horses when fighting try especially to bite each other’s necks.

Does he know anything about male seals fighting?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6026

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 292
Summary:

Writes of his son’s affairs.

Is reading Variation and discusses a point relating to feeding habits of horses.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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