From T. C. Eyton 23 August [1868]1
Eyton, | Wellington, | Salop.
Dear Darwin
I shall send per rail tomorrow of which I beg your acceptance a copy of my Osteologia avium now complete I have otained several more rare skeletons since descrptions of which will form an appendix and will appear as soon as my eyes get well enough to work at them which I have no doubt they will as soon as cool weather comes as they are much better for the last cool day or two2 What a capital address that was of Hookers at Norwich3 I intended to have been there but eyes said no. I have amoung other skeletons obtained that of Opisthocomus cristatus a bird that has been placed in all sorts of places but is a true guan.4 Huxley borrowed of me and is I believe going to publish a paper on it in the zoological proceedings.5 I have got a lot of pigs heads from different parts their variation is extraordinary.6 I sowed this year some convolvulus in front of the house some of the blossoms on the same plant are pink some purple and some white.7
yours truly | Tho C Eyton
Aug 23
Footnotes
Bibliography
Birds of the world: Handbook of the birds of the world. By Josep del Hoyo et al. 17 vols. Barcelona: Lynx editions. 1991–2013.
Eyton, Thomas Campbell. 1867–75. Osteologia avium; or, a sketch of the osteology of birds. 1 vol. and 2 supplements. Wellington, Salop.: R. Hobson.
Newton, Alfred. 1893–6. A dictionary of birds. Assisted by Hans Gadow, with contributions from Richard Lydekker, Charles S. Roy, and Robert W. Shufeldt. 4 parts. London: Adam and Charles Black.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Sends a copy of his Osteologia avium.
Variation in pigs’ heads
and in Convolvulus.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6328
- From
- Thomas Campbell Eyton
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Eyton, Wellington, Salop
- Source of text
- DAR 163: 41
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6328,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6328.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16