From Robert Swinhoe   10 February 1870

33 Oakley Square SW.

10 February, 1870.

My dear Mr. Darwin,

I must apologise for troubling you again so soon.1 You told me some time ago of a gentleman who made a study of the skulls of Cattle, and was doing good work with them. Could you kindly inform me where I could find this gentleman?2 I have a series of Skulls of the small Chinese Yellow Cow3 together with a photograph of a fine Bull of the same breed and I should like much to get him to examine them before I put them into the Museum.

Your’s very truly, | Robert Swinhoe.

The reference has not been identified.
Swinhoe probably refers to a specimen of Southern yellow cattle, a variety of zebu cattle, Bos taurus indicus.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7102,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7102