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
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
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
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Elliot
To:
George Cupples
Date:
21 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A60–1
Summary:
Proportion of sexes in lambs, before castration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Aitchison
To:
George Cupples
Date:
25 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A63–4
Summary:
Statistics on proportion of sexes of lambs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Elliot
To:
George Cupples
Date:
25 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A65
Summary:
Number of lambs born not kept. Counted only at time of castration.
Proportion of sexes in cattle and rats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Aitchison
To:
George Cupples
Date:
30 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 66
Summary:
WA explains the figures he sent GC. In his experience female lambs at the time of castration outnumber the males. [Robert] Elliot differs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[after June 1869]
Source of text:
Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (2013)
Summary:
Wishes Cupples had said something about health. Sends regards to Mrs Cupples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Oliver
To:
George Cupples
Date:
3 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 67
Summary:
Information about sexes of sheep at time of castration. Mortality of male lambs higher than that of females.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Graham
To:
George Cupples
Date:
6 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR A86: 68–9
Summary:
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle before eighteen months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Allan Cunningham Pagan
To:
George Cupples
Date:
16 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: B54–5
Summary:
Appends an eight-year list of lambs for CD’s private information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Rait
To:
George Cupples
Date:
20 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 70–1
Summary:
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
20 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 4127 II, 4to)
Summary:
Thanks GC for his assistance. "The data for all that I have to say about the Scotch deer-hound are, owing to you, almost sufficient; and much better data than I have got in many other cases." [See Descent 2: 260.]
Believes Dr Stirling would be compelled to admit some change in "the famous protoplasm in our domestic races, both in regard to the structure of the body & qualities of the mind".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project