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DCP-LETT-1789

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?

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DCP-LETT-1793

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.

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DCP-LETT-1795

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
10 Dec 1855
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.118)
Summary:

Mentions seeing GHKT at BAAS meeting at Oxford [1847].

Reports he is working on variation of species. Asks about varieties of pigeons and other poultry, and asks for specimens from Ceylon.

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