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DCP-LETT-2835

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3134

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3140

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3148

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4744

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
25 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.353)
Summary:

Thanks TCE for copy of his book [Osteologia avium (1867)].

Recalls visits to Eyton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6573

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
24 Jan 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.359)
Summary:

Has heard that book by Alphonse M[ilne]-Edwards [? Recherches anatomiques et paléontologiques, 4 vols. (1867–71)] is excellent.

Asks when horns appear on young male fallow deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
6 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.366)
Summary:

Thanks TCE for fawn’s head.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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