RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1840]. Abstract of Anderson, An account of the different kinds of sheep found in the Russian Dominions, etc. CUL-DAR47.93. 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'.
Pallas, Pyotr Simon. 1794. An account of the different kinds of sheep found in the Russian dominions, and among the Tartar hordes of Asia to which is added five appendices tending to illustrate the natural and economical history of sheep and other domestic animals. By James Anderson. Edinburgh.
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Page 95 Dr. A in support of his own view that even varieties may keep distinct in a state of nature says that the Shetland breed of Sheep celebrated for the softness of their wool, have not been contaminated by the introduction of foreign breeds: This is remarkable but he quite overlooks the possibilityany probability that the Climate tends to produce fine wool otherwise whence came the breed?— if this were not so, it seems impossible that the breed cd be kept, as there is no selection excepting a negative one on a highly injurious principle of castrating rams / with the finest fleece to prevent their rambling
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