RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Hunter, A supplementary letter on the identity of the species of the dog, wolf, and jackal, etc. CUL-DAR205.7.106. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.7 contains notes on hybridism, sterility and pigeons.
John Hunter. 1789. A supplementary letter on the identity of the species of the dog, wolf, and jackal; from John Hunter, Esq. F. R. S. addressed to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 79, issue 79 (December): 160-61.
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Phil Transacts 1789. p. 160.
Mr Hunter in stating that a half-bred wolf bred with whole parent, says "only one was, a female & she had much more of the mother or Wolf in her than any of the rest of the same litter."—
Wolves come to heel in December only —
Not clear
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