From George Brown [before 1868]1
[Down.]
[Mr. G. Brown, of the Cirencester Agricultural College, who has particularly attended to the dentition of our domestic animals, writes to me that he has “several times noticed eight permanent incisors instead of six in the jaw.”]2
Footnotes
The date is established by the publication of this fragment in Variation 1: 50; Variation was published early in 1868 (see Correspondence vol. 16).
Brown’s correspondence with CD has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Has “several times noticed eight permanent incisors instead of six in the jaw [of the horse]”.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5313F
- From
- George Thomas (George) Brown
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester
- Source of text
- Variation 1: 50
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5313F,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5313F.xml
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