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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
27 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.305)
Summary:
Thanks JEG for congratulations [on Copley Medal?].
Mentions JEG’s illness.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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].
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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.
Contributor:
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