To T. C. Eyton 24 January 1869
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Jan 24 1869
Dear Eyton
I am sorry to say that I cannot give you the least information about the subject of your enquiry.1
It is a very interesting one, but I shd fear that it would prove very difficult.
I am glad to hear that you are continuing to work on your great subject of the osteology of birds.2 I have not seen Alph. M. Edwards’ book, but I hear that it is excellent.3
Can you give me information on one point? viz. how many months after birth do the horns first appear in the young males of the fallow deer?4
If you can tell me with any degree of accuracy I should be particularly obliged.
If I do not hear I shall understand that you cannot do so.
Believe me dear Eyton | yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
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.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6573
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Campbell Eyton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.359)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6573,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6573.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
