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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-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-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
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