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Darwin Correspondence Project

To E. P. Wright   26 March [1865]

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Mar 26

Dear Dr Wright

I am very much obliged for your note.1 The fact that you mention about the buffalo diving is extremely curious & might come in of use to me, at some future day as illustrating abnormal habits. But I have one little difficulty   you speak of the animal as Buf. arnee; now the Arnee is a species of Bos & not of Bubalus; if you cd at any time learn whether the animal was a Bubalus or a Bos your case wd be more valuable.2

With very sincere thanks, pray believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

For Wright’s identification, see Correspondence vol. 13, letter from E. P. Wright, 31 March 1865. The Asian water buffalo that Wright discussed is now named Bubalus bubalis; Bubalus bubalis arnee is a subspecies.

Summary

Thanks for fact about the buffalo diving.

Asks whether the animal was a Bos or a Bubalus.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-4793F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Edward Perceval Wright
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Malmö Museer (MM 031992)
Physical description
LS(A) 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4793F,” accessed on 30 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4793F.xml

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