To T. C. Eyton 9 June [1857]
Summary
Comments on TCE’s work [Catalogue of the species of birds in his collection (1856)].
Mentions African dog’s skin.
Asks about colours of horses
and about variation in tracheae of male birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 9 June [1857] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.146) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2103 |
To T. C. Eyton 26 [June 1857]
Summary
Ill.
Comments on TCE’s study of birds’ bones.
His work on variation progresses.
Asks about horses with bars like zebra or ass.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 26 [June 1857] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2113 |
To T. C. Eyton 22 [July 1857]
Summary
Sends TCE West African dog’s skin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 22 [July 1857] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.148) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2126 |
To T. C. Eyton 2 November [1857]
Summary
Has TCE observed whether hybrids of Chinese and common forms [of geese] were wilder, or less tame, than both parents?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1857] |
| Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2164 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Addressee
| Eyton, T. C. | (4) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Eyton, T. C. | (4) |
