To T. C. Eyton 3 May [1861]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 3d
Dear Eyton
I have received the skeletons this morning & am very much obliged to your kindness for sending them.—2 I am truly sorry to give trouble; but one domestic cock in longest box with sliding lid has no sort of name. Can you tell me what it is, as it is useless without name.—
Also what is “Gungla” cock is G. Bankiva? or G. Sonneratii?3
The other Box contains the Hamburgh.— And the fourth Box contains Call Duck; so perhaps you will know what the fourth is.
I cannot say much for my own health, though I have been rather better lately— I write in a hurry to catch Post—
With sincere thanks | Yours very truly | C. Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Has received the shipment of skeletons of fowls. Asks TCE species name of Gungla cock. Mentions other specimens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3134
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Campbell Eyton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.247)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3134,” accessed on 27 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3134.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
