From T. C. Eyton 26 January [1869]1
Eyton, | Wellington, | Salop.
Dear Darwin
The fawns have no horns for the first 12 months after they are droped they then grow short ones and are called prickets on feeling the head of a dead fawn about Xmas a slight knob is to be felt2
yours truly | Tho C Eyton
Jan 26
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to T. C. Eyton, 24 January 1869.
See letter to T. C. Eyton, 24 January 1869 and n. 4. In Descent 1: 288 n. 24, CD cited Eyton for information on the appearance of horns in fallow deer.
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
On development of horns in fawns of fallow deer.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6578
- From
- Thomas Campbell Eyton
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Eyton, Wellington, Salop
- Source of text
- DAR 86: A51
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6578,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6578.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
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