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DCP-LETT-6157

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 283
Summary:

Has read Variation;

is preparing a monograph on Scotch deerhounds. Offers CD information on size of male and female deerhounds.

Might not the effect of human mother’s imagination on "character of offspring" support Pangenesis?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6169

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11–13 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 119–20, DAR 83: 121–6, DAR 85: B28
Summary:

Answers CD’s queries on difference in size of male and female Scottish deerhounds; female preference for larger males; details about ratio of sexes born. Quotes from letter of Archibald McNeill on difference in size of male and female Scotch deerhounds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6527

From:
John Robert Goodwin Barr
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[after 11 May 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B27
Summary:

Sends replies on dogs – sexual differences and preferences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6211

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 127–8
Summary:

Refers to letter from John Wright offering to help CD on his queries about deerhounds and sexual preferences.

More details about a terrier bitch previously referred to [letter missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6214F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
29 May [1868]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6257

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 284
Summary:

Weighing ten deerhound puppies for CD each week.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6274

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 129–32; DAR 161: 285
Summary:

Offers deerhound puppy.

Asks for photograph.

Encloses letter from George Cupples of notes, with excerpts from letters from Peter Robertson and John Wright, relating to difference in size between male and female deerhounds. Reports on weight statistics of ten [deerhound] puppies being observed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6310

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 286
Summary:

Thanks for photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6543

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 287
Summary:

Receiving notes on inbreeding from T. T. Wright, who has long experience with the subject.

Reports six-toed pup.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6546F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[6–9? Jan 1869]
Source of text:
Cupples 1894, p. 165
Summary:

Discusses the development of horns in reindeer and other deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6548

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 288
Summary:

Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6555

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 289
Summary:

Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6566

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 290; DAR 86: A81–2
Summary:

Forwards reply from [Peter Robertson] head forester for Marquis of Breadalbane on development of horns in Scottish deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6657

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 133–8, DAR 161: 282
Summary:

Differences in size and weight in deerhounds, with tables of comparative weights according to sex. Promises information on weights of deerhound puppies. Effects of cross- and inbreeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6668F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
18 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
Former collection of Pr. Georges Teissier (private collection)
Summary:

Suggests that Cupples weigh puppies from one week old, rather than two weeks old.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6679

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 291
Summary:

Will look for sex ratio statistics.

Will weigh pups.

Deerhound breeding;

wolves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6770

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B56
Summary:

Note on proportion of sexes born in sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6775

From:
Robert Elliot
To:
George Cupples
Date:
4 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A30–1, A62
Summary:

Proportion of sexes in (new-born) lambs equal, but males more likely to die.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6784

From:
William Aitchison
To:
George Cupples
Date:
16 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A54–5
Summary:

Statistics on proportion of sexes in lambs.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6786

From:
Thomas Russell
To:
George Cupples
Date:
18 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 56–7
Summary:

On the proportion of sexes in lambs.

Contributor:
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