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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 302; DAR 90: 114–16, 119–26
Summary:

Promises answers to CD queries on dogs.

Enclosure 1: G. A. Graham responds to CD’s questions (transmitted by GC) on greyhound breeding and proportion of sexes reared.

Enclosure 2: J. W. Robertson’s general rule has been to preserve male deerhound puppies in preference to females.

Enclosure 3: Proportion of sexes in dog litters [for Descent, 2d ed.] from W. Forbes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Prior Purvis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 174: 80
Summary:

Sends report on an infant with congenital heart disease who died at ten months. Post-mortem showed it had the "heart of a fish": two cavities, one auricle and one ventricle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project