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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1856.02. Mr Thompson at the Zoolog. Gardens says positively that the two kinds of Muntjak deer. CUL-DAR205.7.224. 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.

The brown crayon number '17' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Hybridism.

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Feb. /56/ Mr Thompson at the Zoolog. Gardens says positively that the two kinds of Muntjak deer bred freely together & that their offspring bred one with another quite freely & that they had herd of them.

Mem as in Plants organ perfect in Hybrids.

[Natural selection, p. 437: "91/Muntjac Deer. At Lord Derbys the Cervulus vaginalis from the Malayan archipelago & C. Reevesii from China bred together (Gleaning from the Menagerie Dr. J. E. Gray 1850. p. 65); & Mr. Thompson the intelligent Curator (& now curator of the Zoological Gardens) assures me that he is certain that the hybrids were perfectly fertile inter se, & that a herd was thus reared."]

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)