To [M. R. Pryor?] [after 21 January 1871?]1
If Mivart had read my account of the Niata Cattle during Droughts in my Journal of Researches, He would have seen that the power of browsing on twigs is a case of life & death—
Apropos to the Giraffe—2
Footnotes
Bibliography
Mivart, St George Jackson. 1876. Lessons from nature, as manifested in mind and matter. London: John Murray.
Summary
Suggests Mivart should have read account of Niata Cattle.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8209F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Marlborough Robert Pryor
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s (dealers) (15 December 2011)
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8209F,” accessed on 7 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8209F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)