To W. B. Tegetmeier 30 July [1860]
Down | Bromley, Kent [Hartfield]1
July 30th
My dear Sir
One line to thank you for your information on Pigeon-Hatching & on Drones.—2 Your case is much to the point. I believe, as many believe, that an occasional cross is almost indispensable;3 Mr Westwood in G. Chronicle threw in my teeth Hive-Bees, & assumed that with them there was no intercrossing, but perpetual intermarrying.4
With many thanks | My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
My daughter still keeps very ill, but improves a little.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1860. Natural cross breeding in bees. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London n.s. 5 (1858–61): Proceedings, p. 126.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks for information on pigeon hatching
and on drones.
Believes occasional crosses indispensable.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2883
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- Sent from
- Hartfield Down letterhead
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2883,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2883.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8