From J. E. Gray 3 April 1871
Brit. Mus.
3rd April 1871
My Dear Darwin
I think I recollect having made a mistake in my letter to you yesterday.1 I quoted “Isis” 1813 it ought to be 1831 & Wagler thought it was the female had the yellow dorsal spot.2
Buffon called the male sloth L’ai adult. vol xiii to vi & Daubenton too in his description calls it Ai de dos brulé vol xiii p 62.3 He says it has the appearance as if the hair of the back had been burnt
I have sent you on an American pamphlet I have received today4
Yours sincerely | J E Gray
Footnotes
Bibliography
Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, comte de, et al. 1749–1804. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du cabinet du roy. 44 vols. Paris: Imprimerie royale.
Wagler, Johann Georg. 1831. Mittheilungen über die Gattungen der Sippe Bradypus. Isis (1831): 604–12.
Summary
Corrects error in his letter [7652] about date of Wagler article in Isis. Wagler said it was females that had the yellow dorsal spot.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7656
- From
- John Edward Gray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- British Museum
- Source of text
- DAR 88: 97
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7656,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7656.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
