Darwin Correspondence Project

Down Bromley Kent

27^th

Dear Eyton

Will you forgive me troubling you once again?— I believe that you have attended much to Herefordshire cattle.^f2 I have somewhere seen an account of two strains of this cattle differing slightly in colour,—I think in more white on face. Now what I want to know, is whether in these two strains there is any other difference whatever, so that you or a good judge, could generally distinguish these breeds by any slight character, independently of the one of colour.^f3 Will you be so very kind as to enlighten me, & not abuse me much as being abominably troublesome.

Your’s most truly | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

f1

Dated by the relationship to the letters to T. C. Eyton, 21 August [1856] and 31 August [1856].

f2

Eyton had published The herd book of Hereford cattle (Eyton 1846[–53]).

f3

See letter to T. C. Eyton, 31 August [1856].