To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 June [1865]
Summary
Has lost time through illness.
Suggests an experiment to see whether the progeny of a pigeon cross are affected by a previous impregnation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 2 June [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4848 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … and Johnson 1856–7, if CD thought fit (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, [29 March – 7 …
- … W. B. Tegetmeier, [7 April 1865] . A notice of Tegetmeier’s presentation of living specimens and preparations of skulls of Polish fowl at the 25 November 1856 …
- … 1856–7 and in Variation. Owing to the delay in publishing Variation , CD was able to use Tegetmeier 1867 in all his references to poultry, including information from Hewitt and Ballance. Tegetmeier 1867 was originally published in fifteen instalments in 1866 and 1867. CD’s unbound annotated parts are in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 800–3). See also Correspondence vol. 14, letter from W. B. …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 March [1865]
Summary
Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 6, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 15 March [1856] , and Variation 1: 132 n. 2). Weir …
- … 1856–7 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 798–800). Weir had also designed the illustrations for Wingfield and Johnson 1853. According to CD’s Classed account book (Down House MS), CD made a payment of £3 3 s. to Tegetmeier for ‘wood cuts’ on 24 January 1866. See also letter from W. B. …
From W. B. Tegetmeier [29 March – 7 April 1865]
Summary
WBT’s eye is getting on very well.
Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Mar – 7 Apr 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 62, 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4803 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … W. B. Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 ). CD congratulated Tegetmeier on the improvement in his eye in his letter of [7 April 1865] . The enclosure to this letter may be one of the slips referred to. Tegetmeier refers to a note on the first folio of CD’s manuscript chapter on fowls. The note contained CD’s acknowledgment of Tegetmeier’s assistance (see Variation 1: 225, n. 1). Tegetmeier refers to Wingfield and Johnson 1856– …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Addressee
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
