From Henry Lee 21 January 1868
at Hurstbourne Park | Whitchurch
21st. Jany 1868
Trout taking for Ova1
| 27 | females | full & ready to spawn |
| 13 | do | spent |
| 6 | do | nearly spent |
| 16 | do | not ready |
| 105 | males | with milt |
| 19 | do | spent |
| 26 | Bright | in good condition |
Memo: 1 of the males was full of milt though only two years old. 1 female was full of white or very pale eggs.
Henry Lee
CD annotations
In table:
‘16 do not ready’] ‘16’ underl pencil; ‘62’ added pencil
‘26 Bright] ‘26’ underl pencil ‘Males 150’ added below pencil ‘150’ altered from ‘140’ red crayon
Top of letter: ‘Lord Portsmouth’s Park’2 pencil
End of letter:
| 62 |
| 150 |
| 212 |
Footnotes
Hurstbourne Park, near the village of Hurstbourne Priors in Hampshire, was the seat of the earl of Portsmouth (National gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868).
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
National gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. Edited by Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton. 12 vols. London: Virtue. [1868.]
Summary
Table of numbers of trout taken for ova; includes males counted. [See Descent 1: 308].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5793
- From
- Henry Lee
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Hurstbourne
- Source of text
- DAR 86: 1
- Physical description
- AmemS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5793,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5793.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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