From W. B. Tegetmeier 15 December [1866]1
Muswell Hill
Decr 15
Dear Sir
Thanks for your kind note it contained precisely the information I wanted2
I hardly know whether you care to read the enclosed—3
When writing to me please return it at your convenience but do not trouble to write purposely.
Yours very truly | W B Tegetmeier
Dr Sclater told me that statement about the Numida ptiloryncha in the last number of the Poultry Book4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1867. The poultry book: comprising the breeding and management of profitable and ornamental poultry, their qualities and characteristics; to which is added ‘The standard of excellence in exhibition birds’, authorized by the Poultry Club. London and New York: George Routledge & Sons.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks for information. Sclater was source of statement about Numida ptiloryncha [as origin of guinea-fowl] in The poultry book [pt 12 (Dec 1866): 288].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5309
- From
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Muswell Hill
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 78
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5309,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5309.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14