From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 118
Summary:
Has been working hard on collecting English and foreign birds. Yarrell has written of new birds discovered in England.
News of work in progress by Leonard Jenyns, P. J. Selby, and John Gould.
Cautions CD to beware of insects when he sends any birds’ skins – otherwise there will be only feathers, beaks, and legs remaining when he returns.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project