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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
From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 230
Summary:

Has examined feet of many partridges, but has not been able to obtain any quantity of mud from them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 19 May 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 40
Summary:

Sends photograph. Asks CD for his.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 41
Summary:

Sends a copy of his Osteologia avium.

Variation in pigs’ heads

and in Convolvulus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 23 Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 42
Summary:

Is trying to determine conditions governing whether or not a salmon will rise for a fly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A51
Summary:

On development of horns in fawns of fallow deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 50
Summary:

Further observations on horns of fallow deer. Sends fawn’s head.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 43
Summary:

Disagrees with the "Darwinian theory"; does not see evidence enough to support it. Will send CD any notes he makes for or against.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project