From Robert Swinhoe [before 1 October 1865?]

Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4727.xml.

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4727,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4727

Summary

Reports that dogs caught in the act of sodomy have been attacked by their fellows, who mutilate the offender’s genitals.

Gives a description of the nature and occurrence of the wild Bos of Formosa.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-4727
From: Robert Swinhoe
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: [before 1 Oct 1865?]
Sent from: Formosa
Source of text: DAR 177: 328
Physical description: 6pp inc

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13.