To T. C. Eyton 9 December [1855]
Summary
Vexed he cannot find head of [Chinese] dog.
First took up skeletonising to see how much young pigeons and poultry differed from the old.
Wishes to ascertain differences in skeletons of pigeons, poultry, covey birds, and rabbits. William Yarrell has shown CD breastbones. W. B. Tegetmeier has shown him skulls of fowls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 9 Dec [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.117) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1793 |
To T. C. Eyton 3 December [1855]
Summary
Now has several pigeons, and intends to get pigeons from all parts of the world.
Glad TCE is working at dogs. Would TCE like head of Chinese dog?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 3 Dec [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.116) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1789 |
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 November [1855]
Summary
Asks TCE’s advice on preparation of birds’ skeletons.
His pigeon collection is growing; now has pairs of ten varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 26 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1784 |
To T. C. Eyton 25 October [1855]
Summary
Unable to give information on Mrs Shaw of Crayford.
Mentions TCE’s interest in dog- and pig-skeleton researches.
Interested in seeing the Eyton Museum.
Reminisces about entomology [at Cambridge].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 25 Oct [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.114) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1769 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 20 March [1856]
Summary
Discusses various pigeons and would welcome receiving any odd breed. Some pigeons have died from overeating bag salt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 20 Mar [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1844 |
From Hugh Falconer 25 October and 12 November [1859]
Summary
The antlers of 800 deer of the glacial period have been found in a cave. They show great variety of form, but gradation from one to the other can be traced when all are laid out. Suggests CD study changes that have taken place in the species since glacial period.
Has ordered the wicked book [Origin] CD has been so long a-hatching.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Oct and 12 Nov 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 215–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2511 |
To E. W. V. Harcourt 1 June [1856]
Summary
Thanks for the very detailed information sent by EWVH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
Date: | 1 June [1856] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 250–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1885F |
From Hugh Falconer 24–7 September [1862]
Summary
Encloses MS ["On the American fossil elephant", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114]. Shows persistence of specific characters through glacial period.
Eocene monkeys mistakenly described as pigs.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24–7 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3737 |
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- … 1855 and 1858, CD had made a detailed study of artificial selection in domestic pigeons, concluding that all the breeds kept by pigeon-fanciers were descended from a single ancestral species (see Origin , pp. 20–9 and Secord 1981 ). Falconer had assisted CD with the osteological comparison of the various breeds (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to T. C. Eyton, …
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