From W. B. Tegetmeier to John Murray and Robert Francis Cooke 17 April 1865
Summary
CD has asked him to supervise drawings of pigeons and fowls [for Variation]. Sends estimates for drawings and engravings by artists who do such work for the Field.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | John Murray; Robert Francis Cooke |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1865 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 136–138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4815 |
From R. F. Cooke to W. B. Tegetmeier 18 April 1865
Summary
Concerning an illustration for CD’s book.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4815F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 28 March [1865]
Summary
Arrangements for woodcuts for Variation.
WBT’s excellent article on crossing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4798 |
Matches: 2 hits
To W. B. Tegetmeier 16 October [1866]
Summary
Hopes to begin printing Variation at the beginning of next year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 16 Oct [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5244 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 16 January [1866]
Summary
What progress has been made with pigeon drawings for Variation?
Can WBT persuade Mr Zurhorst to repeat a pigeon experiment?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4977 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 13, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier to John Murray and R. F. Cooke, 17 April 1865, …
- … John Murray, 31 March [1865] and n. 17). For details of the varieties of pigeon illustrated in Variation , see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to W. B. …
- … B. Jones, 3 January [1866] and nn. 2–8, and Correspondence vol. 13, Appendixes II and IV. CD also refers to his work on Variation , which had occupied him intermittently since January 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to John Murray, …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 15 October 1866
Summary
The blocks [for Variation] have been forwarded to Murray.
WBT has been corresponding with Prof. Newton.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5243 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 9 July [1866]
Summary
WBT’s fowls’ skulls are being engraved; will see pigeon illustration proofs when he can.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 9 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5152 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 10 April 1865
Summary
MS [of CD’s pigeon chapter] arrived safely.
Pigeon and poultry engravings [for Variation].
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4808 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … send an estimate of the cost of the engravings to John Murray . See letter from W. B. …
- … John Murray and R. F. Cooke, 17 April 1865. William Yarrell had helped CD buy equipment for the Beagle voyage, and later assisted him with his pigeon work, advising him about breeds and providing introductions to dealers and breeders (for Yarrell’s correspondence with CD, see Correspondence vols. 1–5). Yarrell introduced CD to Tegetmeier in 1855 (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to W. B. …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 April [1865]
Summary
Instructions for Luke Wells about woodcuts for Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4804 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and [7 April 1865] . See letter to John Murray, 4 …
- … John Murray, 1 April 1865 . The note has not been found. Luke Wells was the artist recommended by Tegetmeier to prepare the pigeon illustrations for Variation (see letter to W. B. …
- … John Murray, 1 April 1865 . CD refers to Wells’s illustration of the barb pigeon in the Field , 18 February 1865. Tegetmeier sent CD a packet containing this and four other issues of the Field with his letter of 27 March 1865 (see letter from W. B. …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 22 January [1866]
Summary
Discusses pigeon and poultry woodcuts [for Variation].
WBT’s poultry book is at last in the hands of a solvent publisher [The poultry book (1867)].
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4983 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 September [1866]
Summary
Blocks for Variation are much improved. WBT deserves membership in Zoological Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 Sept [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5212 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 February [1868]
Summary
Is much obliged that WBT will undertake tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses, greyhounds, and cattle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5879 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 15 February 1868]
Summary
Agrees to help determine the sex ratios in domestic animals.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5878 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 August [1866]
Summary
Comments on pigeon and poultry woodcuts.
Observations and queries on poultry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5176 |
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 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 31 August [1855]
Summary
Thanks for WBT’s offer to supply carcasses of good poultry breeds. Encloses list [missing] of birds in which he is interested.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1855] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1751 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 August [1875]
Summary
Thanks for answer to racehorse query;
would be grateful for correction of any errors in Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1875] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10118 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 28 [December 1862]
Summary
Can WBT help get an answer to a query on ducks?
Has heard of a case of special sterility in cattle, in which a particular pair are sterile, but the individuals are both fertile with others.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3869 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 6 January [1867]
Summary
Returns some of WBT’s skulls.
His MS is with printer, but book [Variation] will probably not be out until November.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1867] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5347 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … John Murray, 18 July [1866] ; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 and 4 August [1866] ). Variation was published in January 1868 ( Freeman 1977 ). Tegetmeier edited a revision of the first edition of The poultry book (Wingfield and Johnson 1853) in 1856 and 1857; however, the publishers went out of business before the edition was complete (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter from W. B. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 18 [December 1866] and n. 4). In Variation 1: 260, CD acknowledged ‘the kindness of Mr. Tegetmeier’ in lending nearly half of the fifty-three skulls examined. Engravings of the skulls of a white-crested Polish cock and of a horned fowl appear in Variation 1: 262, 263, and 265. CD refers to the manuscript of Variation , and to the printing firm William Clowes & Sons (see letter from John Murray, …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 2 August 1866
Summary
Encloses feathers from a diseased hen which has assumed cock plumage.
Forwards proofs of the engravings for Variation.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Aug 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5171 |
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| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (19) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
