From W. B. Tegetmeier [16–20 February 1868]1
My dear Sir
I write a hurried line and send you the first instalment relating the Thoroughbred horses.2
If you will return the Coursing Calendar I will extract from it. The other years of greyhounds must be made up out of the papers as no return has been compiled3
In extreme haste | Truly Yours | W B Tegetmeier
C Darwin Esq.
Footnotes
The date range is established by the relationship between this letter and the letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 15 February [1868] and 21 February [1868].
The enclosure has not been found. Tegetmeier may have sent CD the information on thoroughbred horses that he published in the Field, 22 February 1868, p. 144, together with a request on CD’s behalf for facts on the proportion of the sexes in horses and other domesticated animals. Tegetmeier’s notice on horses was as follows: ‘By referring to the Racing Calendar for the last two-and-twenty years (since 1846 inclusive), I have ascertained the proportion of thoroughbred colts and fillies foaled during that period; they amount to 12,763 colts and 12,797 fillies.... I believe the general impression abroad is that the fillies are considerably in excess of the colts.’ See letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, [before 15 February 1868].
Summary
Encloses information on sex ratios in thoroughbred horses.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5882
- From
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 80
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp, encl Amem 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5882,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5882.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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