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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1844?]. Abstract of Anderson, Reflections in agriculture. CUL-DAR205.7.82. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. 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.

Anderson, James. 1799-1803. Reflections in agriculture, natural-history, arts, and miscellaneous literature. 6 vols. London.

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Anderson's Recreations in Agriculture Vol. 4. p. 332

In agricult Rep. on Middlesex a Hybrid between Buffalo & Alderney gave much milk.

["In the agricultural account of Middlesex, mention is made of a heifer that sprung from an Alderney cow and a Buffalo, which was remarkable for yielding a great quantity of milk, and always continuing very fat without any extraordinary quantity of food." [James Anderson]. 1801. On the varieties of the ass tribe, and hybrid animals. Recreations in Agriculture, Natural History, Arts, etc., 4: 321-33.]

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