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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-3138

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.246)
Summary:

CD is unable to locate his specimens of two Falkland Island birds [Opetiorhynchus].

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-3163

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Hunt
Date:
28 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.250)
Summary:

Thanks President and Council of Ethnological Society for his election.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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