To W. B. Tegetmeier 26 [January 1863]1
Down Bromley Kent
26th
My dear Sir
I have got the vaguest idea that I have read of a cut-off extra or monstrous toe on a fowl growing again.----2 Have you heard of such a case? If you have, kindly inform me; if not, please do not write, as I shall understand silence
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Shall you do anything about Spanish Cock & white Silk-Hen?3
I saw in Report of Philoperisteron a notice of curious pigeon with long wings.----4 Do you know owner, could you get me a longer description, with any measurement of wing from tip to tip & measurement of body from base of beak to base of tail. But it would hardly worth trouble without the Bird was dead.----
Footnotes
Summary
Has WBT ever heard of a case of the regeneration of monstrous (extra) toe on fowls?
Inquires about a curious pigeon reported at the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3944
- 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 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3944,” accessed on 26 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3944.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11