From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
31 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.325)
Summary:
Asks GHKT about eyes of screaming elephants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
13 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.341)
Summary:
Asks whether mane in male of Macacus silenus protects it from bites or is merely ornamental.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
19 May [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.342)
Summary:
GHKT should not take more trouble about human expression. Discusses contraction of orbicular muscles in elephants.
Asks about colour of first plumage of breeds of Ceylon fowls in which hens alone are coloured.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Peter Layard
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
28 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A91
Summary:
Has black-boned cocks and hens that show the characteristic that Edgar Layard thought peculiar to the female line. Will provide any particulars that CD wants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
2 Sept 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.354)
Summary:
Thanks GHKT and S. O. Glenie for information about fowls.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
28 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.343)
Summary:
Asks him to thank E. L. Layard for trouble taken.
Says Zoological Society "very foolishly" wants no specimens of domestic varieties [from Ceylon].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
26 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.335)
Summary:
Encloses Queries about expression.
Contributor:
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From:
Samuel Owen Glenie
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
[before 31 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 55
Summary:
Relates some observations on the expression of elephants; they do not cry unless the eye is hurt or struck. "Perhaps Mr Darwin will like to know the above."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.358)
Summary:
Discusses experiments in breeding fowls.
Comments on letter from S. O. Glenie [see 6440] concerning the eyes of trumpeting elephants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project