RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. 1871.05.13. I saw a new Forest pony apparently. CUL-DAR90.75a. 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 volumes CUL-DAR 87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).
[75a]
May 13 1871 — Southampton
I saw a new Forest pony apparently young shedding its hair. (Bred near Southampton)
Winter coat very long & perfectly white; summer coat brownish cream-colour, with trace of spinal dark stripe, tail & mane remaining white.
Descent of Man— Pony 2 years old — Born of same brown cream colour
While Arctic animals in winter —If this Pony [illeg] its colours during both seasons an arctic breed might at one be formed—
[Descent 2: 298]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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