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DCP-LETT-9356

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

DCP-LETT-9354

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
12 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/61)
Summary:

Cannot answer AN’s questions about Origin; it would take weeks to find the references. Assures AN he stated nothing without an authority he thought good.

Feels sure missel thrushes have increased in number since his youth. Starlings have also increased astonishingly in Kent. "How inexplicable most of these cases are".

In a P.S. remembers his source for statement about increase of missel thrushes in Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9355

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

JHC1213

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
12 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.220-221, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

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Contributor:
Hooker Project
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