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 B. D. Walsh 20 August [1866]
Summary
On various subjects: Dana’s misquotations,
H. J. Clark’s book Mind in nature [1865],
BDW’s Cynips experiments, galls,
Balbiani’s paper on aphids ["Sur la reproduction et l’embryogénie des pucerons", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 62 (1866): 1231–4, 1285–9, 1390–4].
Claus and other Germans testing CD’s views of variability in common lower animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 20 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5194 |
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 |
To W. D. Fox 24 August [1866]
Summary
Family news. Describes [final] illness of Susan Darwin [d. 3 Oct 1866]. CD’s health better.
Making rapid progress on Variation.
Has heard of hybrids between moths mentioned by WDF.
Work on [4th] edition of Origin has delayed Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5197 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … B. Jones, 3 January [1866] and nn. 2 and 4). He started riding on 4 June 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); see also letter to John Lubbock, 2 August [1866] , n. 2. See letter from W. D. Fox, 20 August [1866] . CD refers to Variation . CD sent the manuscript of all but the last chapter of Variation to his publisher in December 1866, but the book was only published in January 1868 ( letter to John Murray, …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
