To Armand de Quatrefages [14 April 1863]
Summary
The niata is a very good case because the race is well established and must originate in South America. There is a description of the head by [Richard] Owen in the Descriptive catalogue of the osteological collection of the College of Surgeons.
Has observed modifications in the skeletons of rabbits, ducks, poultry, and pigeons. There is an extract about modifications in pigeons in the first chapter of Origin. Encloses a woodcut of crested or polish fowls; there is a change in the brain as well as in the exterior bones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | [14 Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris 4 (1863): 378–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094F |
To Armand de Quatrefages 14 May [1863]
Summary
Is sending photographs of the niata skull [requested in 4082]. W. H. Flower reports that he could have a cast made for £3.3s.0d.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 14 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1997) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4166A |
To Armand de Quatrefages 27 March [1863]
Summary
Specimens obtained from Charles Martins will be most interesting.
Comments on QdeB’s book [Physiologie comparée (1862)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 76–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4437 |
