To Jeffries Wyman 3 October [1860]
Summary
JW’s case of black hogs shows marvellous relation of colour and constitution.
Could JW get information about eyes of cave rat?
Was JW struck by length of hind legs of male cattle?
CD has long shared JW’s doubts that mutilations were ever inherited but Brown-Séquard’s case seems to settle question.
Is not case of cats with blue eyes being deaf very odd?
Spinal stripes on horse too common to explain in way informant supposes.
Believes Owen "goes a long way with us", though he attacked CD in Edinburgh Review.
"No one other person understands me so thoroughly as Asa Gray."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Date: | 3 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2936 |
To Robert Patterson 21 October [1860]
Summary
Thanks RP for communicating the "Rat v. Rabbit case".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Praeger 1935, p. 715 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2958 |
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- … use it, so I will not give trouble to your informant of inquiring. With many thanks, pray …
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Earthworms
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As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
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- … to collect information on worms. Some of his most faithful informants and observers of the actions …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … before. He also made efforts to expand his network of informants, especially among breeders of …
