From James Paget [1869]1
I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks.2 The case seems as striking as I believed.
Footnotes
The year is given in the printed source.
The note from William Wentworth Fitzwilliam has not been found. CD had discussed stripes in horses in Variation 1: 61–4 and 2: 41.
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6533
- From
- James Paget, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- , p. 408
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6533,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6533.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
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