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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. n.d. Abstract of Forster, A letter from Mr. John Reinhold Forster, F. A. S. to the Hon. Daines Barrington, Vice-Pres. R. S. on the management of carp in polish Prussia. CUL-DAR205.7.76. 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.

J. R. Forster. 1771. A letter from Mr. John Reinhold Forster, F. A. S. to the Hon. Daines Barrington, Vice-Pres. R. S. on the management of carp in polish Prussia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 61, issue 61 (December): 310-325.

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Phil Trans. 1771. p. 318. on the management of Carp in Polish Prussia by J. R. Forster. describes hybrid carp tench, gives provincial name from mixture of big & little scales from parents, also describes hybrid carp & crucian. ~~These~~ (flesh of former cross more like that of tench) some part of body with small scales & some with large) like two parents) both hybrids hardier than carp. D. B. [Daines Barrington] believes crucian is the Rud. or Fin scale of Brit. Zool. apparently the Ciprinus carausius of Linn.

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