From R. W. Griffiths December 1877
Summary
A sheep-breeder friend has found that he can produce twins and triplets in his flock by "a sudden supply of improved feeding stuff" at time of conception. This would appear to remove the objection CD refers to in Descent that animals supplied with an excess of food become sterile.
| Author: | Richard William Griffiths |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11263 |
From R. F. Cooke 1 December 1877
Summary
Reprint of Origin will bring number to 19500 – so title-page may safely read "Twentieth Thousand".
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 498 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11264 |
To G. J. Romanes [1 and 2 December 1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s lecture on evolution.
Regrets failure of graft experiments.
Hopes GJR will not give up on Pangenesis. Mentions article by Gustav Jäger on Pangenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 1 and 2 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.526) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11265 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Griffiths, R. W. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Griffiths, R. W. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
