RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1846.03. Mr Perry had setter bitch which had first litter by Terrier. CUL-DAR205.7.111. 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.


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March 46

Ch. 3

Mr Perry had setter bitch─ which had first litter by Terrier — after that had many litters by true Setters, yet all puppies were not pure & some in each had a brindled spot.—

Mr Elm's setters black & white, after some litters (which were in great request) & was then lined by mastiff & subsequent puppies were so coarse as not to be worth keeping

#(Does this not show greter effect of the cross) Mr Mr Perry had white terrier bitch lined after one pure litter by large bull terrier & in her 3 subsequent litters by pure terrier (white dogs in two cases) had one or two puppies in each litter; marked over eye by brown liver-coloured mark like bull-terrier & were decidedly larger than others, even at birth & still more as they grew up.

Tigers not breeding

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Pig case after Ld. Moreton

See Dr. Lucas Prosper


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