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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
25 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.114)
Summary:

Unable to give information on Mrs Shaw of Crayford.

Mentions TCE’s interest in dog- and pig-skeleton researches.

Interested in seeing the Eyton Museum.

Reminisces about entomology [at Cambridge].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
3 Dec [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.116)
Summary:

Now has several pigeons, and intends to get pigeons from all parts of the world.

Glad TCE is working at dogs. Would TCE like head of Chinese dog?

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
9 Dec [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.117)
Summary:

Vexed he cannot find head of [Chinese] dog.

First took up skeletonising to see how much young pigeons and poultry differed from the old.

Wishes to ascertain differences in skeletons of pigeons, poultry, covey birds, and rabbits. William Yarrell has shown CD breastbones. W. B. Tegetmeier has shown him skulls of fowls.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
21 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.135)
Summary:

Asks whether offspring of cross between African pig and common pig are fertile. Are Lord Rowland Hill’s African pigs domesticated?

Mentions pigeons’ skeletons.

Is working at a book on variation [Natural selection].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
27 [Aug 1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.136)
Summary:

Asks about strains of Herefordshire cattle.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
31 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.137)
Summary:

Asks whether number of incisors varies in domestic pigs. Is testing views of J. M. Bechstein.

Comments on TCE’s book [Herd book of Hereford cattle (1846–59)]. Mentions variations in the breed.

Will quote TCE on geese [Mag. Nat. Hist. 4 (1840): 90–2].

Problem of geographical distribution; his seed-salting experiments. Asks about distribution of seeds to islands. Do water-birds ever have dirty feet?

Could Eyton’s gamekeepers collect owl and hawk pellets? Asks for dace stomachs and contents.

Asks for cats’ skeletons.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
5 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.139)
Summary:

Offers TCE dog’s skin and skull received from W. F. Daniell in West Africa.

Mentions his experiments involving hawk pellets in seed distribution.

Reminds TCE about pig crosses and incisors.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
9 June [1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.146)
Summary:

Comments on TCE’s work [Catalogue of the species of birds in his collection (1856)].

Mentions African dog’s skin.

Asks about colours of horses

and about variation in tracheae of male birds.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
26 [June 1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.147)
Summary:

Ill.

Comments on TCE’s study of birds’ bones.

His work on variation progresses.

Asks about horses with bars like zebra or ass.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
22 [July 1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.148)
Summary:

Sends TCE West African dog’s skin.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
4 Aug [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.156)
Summary:

Has finished arranging his pigeons’ skeletons. May consult TCE on them.

CD is at work on an abstract of his conclusions on species and varieties [Origin]. His "bigger book" [Natural selection] will take two or three more years.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
4 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.158)
Summary:

Comments on TCE’s skeletons.

Must get advice from Hugh Falconer on names of some bones.

Preparing his abstract [Origin].

Asks about colours of horses and stripes on asses.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
11 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.159)
Summary:

Asks about dirt clinging to feet of birds as means of seed distribution.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
24 [Nov 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.177)
Summary:

Mentions reactions to Origin. It will "horrify and disgust" TCE.

Some authorities approve more than CD expected.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
18 June [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.218)
Summary:

Asks about the period of gestation in dogs.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
3 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.247)
Summary:

Has received the shipment of skeletons of fowls. Asks TCE species name of Gungla cock. Mentions other specimens.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
6 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.248)
Summary:

Discusses results of his examination of fowls’ skeletons. Wants to quote TCE on variation in skeletons of allied species. Asks about skulls of birds with topknots.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
14 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.249)
Summary:

Asks TCE to confirm some general statements on resemblances in skeletons of birds of same genus.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
9 Jan [1865?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.285)
Summary:

Thanks TCE for information about breeding

and for his promise to measure feet of otter-hounds [see Variation 1: 39–40].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
[30 Nov 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.17)
Summary:

Sends bird specimens for examination by TCE [for Birds].

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