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To C. I. F. Major   [c. 1 November 1872]1

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As soon as I hear, which cannot be for 10 or 12 days, I will communicate with you.2 I am particularly obliged for the very interesting & valuable fact about the hornless female of Bos, & about the canine teeth of Sus. I shall be very glad to receive the paper which you kindly promise to send me, & for the paper just recd on—Myodes—3

I read some time ago with much interest your memoirs on the extinct species of Quadrumana.4

Believe me | dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from C. I. F. Major, 17 November 1872 (Correspondence vol. 20).
2
CD probably refers to Major’s proposal for an Italian translation of Expression (see Correspondence vol. 20, letter from C. I. F. Major, 18 October 1872).
3
In his letter of 18 October 1872, Major sent CD information about fossil specimens of the genera Bos and Sus (cattle and pigs, respectively). There are copies of Major’s papers on Myodes torquatus (a synonym of Dicrostonyx torquatus, the Arctic lemming) and on the vertebrate fauna of Mount Bomboli (Major 1872b and Major 1873) in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
4
A copy of Major 1872a is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Bibliography

Major, Charles Immanuel Forsyth. 1872a. Notes sur des singes fossiles trouvés en Italie, précédée d’un aperçu sur les quadrumanes fossiles en général. [Read 1 April 1872.] Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali 15 (1872–3): 79–95.

Major, Charles Immanuel Forsyth. 1872b. Materiali per la microfauna dei mammiferi quaternarj. I. Myodes torquatus Pall. delle caverne del Württemburg. [Read 26 May 1872.] Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali 15 (1872–3): 111–29.

Major, Charles Immanuel Forsyth. 1873. La faune des vertébrés de Monte Bamboli. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali 15 (1872–3): 290–503.

Summary

Will let CIFM know [probably about John Murray’s terms for an Italian translation of Expression].

Thanks for information about hornless fossil Bos etruscus and Miocene fossils of genus Sus [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 505, 521].

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8564F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8564F.xml

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