To Jeffries Wyman 3 October [1860]
Summary
JW’s case of black hogs shows marvellous relation of colour and constitution.
Could JW get information about eyes of cave rat?
Was JW struck by length of hind legs of male cattle?
CD has long shared JW’s doubts that mutilations were ever inherited but Brown-Séquard’s case seems to settle question.
Is not case of cats with blue eyes being deaf very odd?
Spinal stripes on horse too common to explain in way informant supposes.
Believes Owen "goes a long way with us", though he attacked CD in Edinburgh Review.
"No one other person understands me so thoroughly as Asa Gray."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Date: | 3 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2936 |
To Jeffries Wyman 3 December [1860]
Summary
"You cannot tell how much your paper on Gestation has interested me" ["On some unusual modes of gestation in batrachians and fishes", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 27 (1859): 5–13].
Robert McDonnell has made curious discoveries on electrical organs of rays.
Is giving JW’s hog case in corrected ed. [3d] of Origin.
Would like account of tip of tail of young rattlesnake.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3005 |
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| Wyman, Jeffries | (2) |
