To W. B. Tegetmeier 22 May [1868]
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 22
My dear Sir
This is a P.S. to my last letter;1 but first let me ask whether by chance you can find out at the Field office the address of L. Lloyd who is in Norway as his publishers believe.2
My P.S. is that I shd much like to know what is the colour of the top-knot during the first plumage, of the Black Polish with white crest,—White Polish with black crest,—Silver Polish,—& especially of Golden Spangled Polish.
2ndly I think the first plumage of the Golden Pencilled Hamburg wd be especially interesting to me—3
My dear Sir | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Lloyd, Llewelyn. 1854. Scandinavian adventures during a residence of upwards of twenty years; representing sporting incidents, and subjects of natural history, and devices for entrapping wild animals; with some account of the Northern fauna. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley.
Summary
Inquires about plumage of poultry breeds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6199
- 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 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6199,” accessed on 9 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6199.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
