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To James Lamont 5 March [1860]
Summary
Responds to JL’s comments on effect of natural selection on grouse or reindeer.
Asks if dirt adheres to feet of water-birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Lamont, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2722 |
From James Lamont [23 February 1860]
Summary
Believes the British and Norwegian species of red grouse are merely strongly marked varieties of the same species.
Writes of the effect of importing a few brace of a wilder breed of grouse into Argyleshire and of their change in territory since 1846.
His explanation of game becoming "wilder": he thinks it is due to a difference in their enemies – man replacing hawks leads to flight replacing cowering.
Author: | James Lamont, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 150–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2710 |
Document type
letter | (2) |
Author
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Lamont, James | (1) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Lamont, James | (1) |