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 |
From Armand de Quatrefages 25 March 1863
Summary
Charles Martins of Montpellier will collect the varieties of silkworm for CD.
QdeB is battling with the polygenists in the Société d’Anthropologie.
| Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 175: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4066 |
From Armand de Quatrefages [28 March] – 11 April 1863
Summary
Continues to support, in debates at the Société d’Anthropologie, the view that variability of animals and anatomical modifications are produced by environment. Wishes to use CD’s niata cattle example from Journal of researches [2d ed., pp. 145–6].
| Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Mar] – 11 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 175: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4082 |
From Armand de Quatrefages 19 May [1863]
Summary
Spoke on Moulin-Quignon Jaw before Académie des Sciences.
Thanks CD for photograph [of Niata skull].
Controversy on species fixity [at Société d’Anthropologie].
Sends photographs of Mouin-Quignon Jaw.
| Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 175: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4171 |
