From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 292
Summary:
Will send deerhound puppy.
Is critical of Herbert Spencer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 83: 142–3
Summary:
Will send CD a deerhound puppy.
Reaffirms his statement that dogs in breeding form decided preferences toward each other, based on size, colour, or character.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 293
Summary:
CD’s deerhound puppy will be ready soon.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 294
Summary:
Delay in sending deerhound puppy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 295
Summary:
Glad "Bran" [deerhound puppy] arrived safely.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 296
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 111–12c
Summary:
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 297
Summary:
Praise for Expression.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 298
Summary:
Missed hostile review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Agrees it might be by J. H. Stirling [see 8935], who has written in a deplorably polemical style on Huxley and Sir William Hamilton.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 299
Summary:
J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Edinburgh intellectual climate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s visit to Edinburgh.
J. H. Stirling did not write anonymous review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Suggests T. Spencer Baynes of St Andrews. [? T. S. Baynes, "Darwin on expression", 137 (1873): 492–528.]
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 85–90
Summary:
Responds to CD’s queries about breeders’ practices in destroying and saving males or females in litters of deerhounds.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 300
Summary:
Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 91–2, 94–7, 102–13, 117–19; DAR 161: 301
Summary:
Answers to queries are being sent.
Enclosure 1: statistics on puppies bred by Rayner in 1873.
Enclosure 2 from W. N. Massey: number of males or females raised depends entirely on preference of greyhound breeders.
Enclosure 3 from E. L. Williams: breeders prefer to destroy bitch pups.
Enclosure 4: Thomas Morse answers CD’s three queries, transmitted by GC: (1) in deerhounds, females predominate, three to one; (2) in all but cattle, females are less worth preserving; (3) TM rears all the young.
Enclosure 5: John Wright responds to CD’s queries about proportion of sexes in births of horses, cattle, and dogs.
Enclosure 6: G. W. Hickman cannot give reliable answers to CD’s queries on proportion of sexes born [in greyhounds?].
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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:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 303
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent, 2d ed.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 304
Summary:
Applies sexual selection to origin of dog race [deerhound]. Proposes descent from a large extinct dog.
Contributor:
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