To J. E. Gray 17 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
CD will call on JEG to hear his views on specific differences of pigs.
Does not know who has "cut me up so severely" in the Athenæum but suspects "your great man in the Museum" [Richard Owen].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 234) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5885 |
To J. E. Gray 2 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks JEG for answering questions so fully and clearly, especially as he is troubled with his eyes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | Winterbourne House and Garden, University of Birmingham (University Herbarium) (WBHERB.HST.L.25.1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5970G |
From John Edward Gray 4 February 1868
Summary
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839 |
From J. E. Gray 6 February 1868
Summary
Would like a look at Nathusius.
Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5846 |
From J. E. Gray 13 February 1868
Summary
JEG and Nathusius on pigs.
Reference to JEG’s paper on African and Indian cats [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 258–77, 874–6].
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5875 |
From J. E. Gray 15 February 1868
Summary
Slashing article on Variation in Athenæum.
Discussion of relationships of various pigs.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5880 |
From J. E. Gray 17 February 1868
Summary
JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].
Colouring in horses.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5886 |
From J. E. Gray 2 March 1868
Summary
Canine teeth in males are always larger than in females and certainly so in Cervulus moschus.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 159–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5970 |
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| Gray, J. E. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Gray, J. E. | (2) |
