RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1841.05.23]. Abstract of Moorcroft, Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab, etc. CUL-DAR205.7.200. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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.
'Books to be read / Books Read' notebook. CUL-DAR119.-.
"Travels in the Himalayan Provinces by W. Moorcroft. ed. by Wilson 1841. (Athenaeum p. 147) — account of varieties of Hybrid Yak. —"
[1841, May] "23 Moorcraft & Trebeck's travels in Himalaya"
Moorcroft, William and Trebeck, George. 1841. Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab. Prepared from original journals and correspondence by H. H. Wilson. 2 vols. London.
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Moorcroft's Travels V. I in the Himalayas. P272.
In Ladakh, common oxen not used for ploughing, but male hybrid, between bos grunniens and, the common cow, or the humped zebu;— the female hybrid being greatly preferred for the Dairy ↘↘
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p. 309. "The male Hybrid is employed as a gelding! for carrying loads &c &c
The female is not strictly speaking a mule, but her progeny degenerates."
How conclusive (together with facts on back of page that they are not infertile
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