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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
8 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.407)
Summary:

Comments on dubious story involving natural history of Formosa. Suggests that Robert Swinhoe could give an answer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
4 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/43)
Summary:

Thanks for facts about ducks.

Thinks TCE will be converted to principle of evolution if he continues testing facts for and against it. Natural selection is another question.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/44)
Summary:

Fondly remembers the days he spent with TCE.

Doubts the Canadian skeleton will have anything to do with man.

Returns extracts.

Samuel Haughton is a bitter opponent.

CD now working on plants;

doubts he will ever return to working on man.

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Darwin Correspondence Project