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From:
Jonathan Peel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 96–7
Summary:

Sends copy of a paper on his flock of sheep, which confirms much of what CD says in Variation,

together with a note he made of an instance of cattle "determining the existence" of a tree [cf. Origin, ch. 3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jonathan Peel
Date:
6 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8059)
Summary:

Obliged for JP’s account of sheep. Such articles would make naturalists think more of natural selection.

E. A. Darwin’s health bad.

Asks about sex ratio in sheep births.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jonathan Peel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B19–20
Summary:

Proportions of male and female lambs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Jonathan Peel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 132–3
Summary:

On the vermiform appendix,

snipes breeding in England,

and the horns of crossbred sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jonathan Peel
Date:
10 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 241
Summary:

Obliged for letter about horns of sheep.

Mentions case of death from objects impacted in appendix.

Is aware of his error about snipe breeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project