RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Pierce, A memoir on the Catskill Mountains, &c. CUL-DAR47.62. 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-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.
[62]
(Ch. 6)
5 Intermediateness
Sillimans Journal. Vol. 6 p 93
Mr Pierce on the Catskill Mountains
"Of wolves, two varieties inhabit the Catskill Mountains; one called by the huntsmen the deer wolf, from his habit of pursuing deer, for which his light grey-hound form adapts him. The other of a more clumsy figure with short legs & large body, more frequently depredates upon flocks under protection of man."
/over
[62v]
St. John on Cats taking to woodcock & Snipe — other to Rabbit & Hares.
(good) Little Book
Come under Selection
[James Pierce. 1823. A memoir on the Catskill Mountains with notices of their topography, scenery, mineralogy, zoology, economical resources, &c. American journal of science, etc. 6: 86-97.]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
File last updated 28 August, 2023