RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1872]. If Mivart had read my account of the niata Cattle. Sothebys-L11408. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of William Huxley Darwin.
From the auction description: "[Origin] sixth edition, with additions and corrections, presentation copy from the author with authorial inscription on the half-title...with a 9-line autograph manuscript fragment relating to his dispute with St George Mivart... M.R. Pryor, pencil ownership signature on endpaper; Marlborough Robert Pryor; thence by descent. Pryor was a contemporary of Darwin's son Francis at Trinity College, Cambridge, where they both studied Natural Science. His grandson, Mark Pryor, went on to marry Darwin's great-grand-daughter Sophie Raverat in 1940." Sotheby's 2011 Lot 16.
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With the Kind
Regards of the
Author.—
If Mivart had read my account of the niata Cattle during Drought in my Journal of Researches, he would have seen there the power of browsing on twigs in a case of life & death —
apropos to the giraffe—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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