To T. C. Eyton 22 April 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Ap 22. 76
Dear Eyton
It is a pleasure to me to see your handwriting as it brings back vividly before my mind the many pleasant days I formerly spent at Eyton.1 I have received an account of the skeleton from the Geological Survey of Canada, but I would wager that it will turn out to have nothing to do with man any more than the famous skeleton of the salamander which was for so long a period thought to be human.2 I return the extracts3
Dr Haughton is an old and bitter opponent of mine.4 I am now at work at plants and do not suppose I shall ever return to the consideration of man.
I sincerely hope that you and all your family are well & remain | Yours very truly | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
[Haughton, Samuel.] 1860. Βίογένεσις. [Biogenesis.] Natural History Review 7: 23–32.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Rudwick, Martin John Spencer. 2005. Bursting the limits of time: the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of revolution. London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Scheuchzer, Johann Jacob. 1726. Homo diluvii testis et θεοσκοπος publicae συζητήσει expositus. Zurich: Joh. Henricus Byrgklinus.
Summary
Fondly remembers the days he spent with TCE.
Doubts the Canadian skeleton will have anything to do with man.
Returns extracts.
Samuel Haughton is a bitter opponent.
CD now working on plants;
doubts he will ever return to working on man.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10465
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Campbell Eyton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/44)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10465,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10465.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24