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SUMMARY:Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-c
 entury Britain - Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy o
 f Science)
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CONTACT:Jules Skotnes-Brown
DESCRIPTION:In November 1870\, a 'very happy\, lazy & handsome' package tr
 avelled 400 miles from rural Fifeshire\, Scotland\, to King's Cross statio
 n in London. Tucked up in a little basket\, 'Bran'\, the Scottish deer hou
 nd\, was greeted at 9am in the busy metropolis by a servant\, who took him
  to an inn and gave him some water\, before accompanying him to Down House
 . Bran was sent to Charles Darwin by George Cupples (1822–91)\, a corres
 pondent who introduced himself in his first letter to Darwin as 'an enthus
 iastic amateur-breeder of a special race of dogs'. At the time Darwin rece
 ived Bran\, Darwin was working on _Descent of Man and Selection in Relatio
 n to Sex_ (1871) and _Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals_ (1872
 ). Darwin's interest in deer-hounds stemmed from the fact that the sexes d
 iffered more in size than those of any other breed. In this talk\, I will 
 explore some of the themes from Darwin's correspondence with Cupples and a
  vast network of dog breeders\, which encompassed a wide range of individu
 als from different social statuses in 19th-century Britain.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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