From W. E. Darwin 20 October [1881]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct [1881] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 94) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13416F |
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- … of boars in the county (Amanda Moore, 2012, ‘What is a Hampshire hog? ’, https:// …
- … www.hampshire-history.com/what-is-a-hampshire-hog/ (accessed 15 June 2021)). William, a …
- … squeeze more money out of the Hampshire Hogs; we have £1000 and want £2000. But we mean to …
- … has been found. The reference to Hampshire Hogs alludes to the fact that the 1882 meeting …
- … Hampshire had been referred to as ‘Hampshire Hogs’ since the late eighteenth century, on …
From W. E. Darwin 12 February [1862]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3443F |
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- … a large one sometime, I went in the whole hog, for the 15£ getting the extra draw with the …
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Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … ed. p. 12). ‘I have been the more glad to get your Hog case,’ Darwin confided to Wyman, ‘as I …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…