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To W. B. Tegetmeier   5 April 1874

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Ap. 5th 74

My dear Sir

Many thanks for Boddart. I am ashamed to say that I cannot remember whether I have paid my subscription of 5/–. I enclose a card (addressed to save as much trouble as possible) & please tell me on it whether I have paid, & if not whether the P.O.O shall be payable at the Strand or at Finchley.1 I am very much obliged for the very interesting article about the Argus Pheasant2

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
CD had agreed to subscribe to Tegetmeier’s edition of Boddaert 1783 (Tegetmeier ed. 1874; see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [before 5 April 1874]). He evidently paid Tegetmeier by Post Office order. Tegetmeier lived in Finchley, North London; he wrote for the Field, which had offices in the Strand, Central London.
2
CD refers to an article by Tegetmeier, ‘Display of the argus pheasant’, in the Field, 28 March 1874, p. 296; a copy is in DAR 88: 188. The article included a large illustration by Thomas W. Wood of the male displaying its plumage before the female, and an extract from Descent 2: 141 describing the development of ocelli in the wing-feathers of the bird. A simplified version of Wood’s drawing was used in Descent 2d ed., p. 400 plate 52.

Bibliography

Boddaert, Pieter. 1783. Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle, de M. d’Aubenton: avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d’une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés. Utrecht: n.p.

Descent 2d ed.: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874.

Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.

Summary

Many thanks for Boddaert [see 9389].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9390
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
LS(A) 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9390,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9390.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22

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