To W. B. Tegetmeier 18 [December 1866]1
Down Bromley Kent
18
My dear Sir
I return the enclosed with thanks.—2 I fully believe in the statement, but I have facts enough & this statement is anonymous. I had overlooked about Guinea-fowl & am obliged to you for calling my attention to it, for though I give only one paragraph to the Guinea-fowl, I shd have been vexed to have blundered about its parentage3
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
P.S I shall very soon now be able to return your 2 or 3 skulls, which I have kept for so enormous a time.—4
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
Thanks for calling his attention to ancestry of guinea-fowl.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5311
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5311,” accessed on 8 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5311.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14