To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 July [1869]
Summary
Further queries on poultry plumage.
WBT’s visit to America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 21 July [1869] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6839 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 25 August 1869
Summary
Inquires about the differences in plumage between chicks and adults of certain poultry breeds. Is anxious to know whether the chick’s plumage closely approaches the adult’s in those breeds in which the sexes resemble each other in plumage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 25 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6870 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 28 September [1869]
Summary
He will send carrier to the Field office to collect pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 28 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (6 June 2001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6915F |
DCP-LETT-6920
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6920 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 1 October [1869]
Summary
Chickens have arrived safely.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 1 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6921 |
From William Bernhard Tegetmeier 14 July 1870
Summary
Sends a letter by Mr Teebay on variation in wild ducks.
Offers to lend Dr Cooper’s book on game fowls.
Is preparing a new edition [1873] of his Poultry book.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 82, DAR 193: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7274 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 July [1870]
Summary
WBT may use any of CD’s material for the new edition of his poultry book. Hopes WBT will keep firmly to his idea of working out pigeon variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 15 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7275 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 25 April 1871]
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 25 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7523 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 25 April 1871]
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7712 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 25 April [1871]
Summary
Has read the Field review of Descent ["Darwin on the descent of man", 37 (1871): 210]. Thanks WBT for his remarks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7713 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 17 [July] 1871
Summary
Sends Field with an account of the cat show; examples of cats with three extra toes.
Sexual preference of a blue turbit.
CD did not return skull of the horned cock figured in Variation [1: 265].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 [July] 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7822 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 18 July [1871]
Summary
One of WBT’s poultry skulls has been misplaced; CD cannot believe he neglected to return it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 18 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7871 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 13 May 1872
Summary
Has found the skull of the horned cock.
With regard to CD’s suggestion about the possibility of producing a pigeon breed with differently coloured sexes, WBT reports the results of crossing blue and silver dragons; the silver offspring are almost always hens.
Would like the latest edition of the Origin.
Encloses notes on volume one [of Descent].
Encloses a photograph showing the bleaching effect of the sun’s rays on dun feathers in pigeons.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 175–6, DAR 90: 101, DAR 178: 83, DAR 193: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8322 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 May [1872]
Summary
Thanks for information on sexual colours in pigeons.
Will send latest edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 14 May [1872] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8326 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for gift of WBT’s book [Pheasants for coverts and aviaries (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 4 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8963 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 February 1874
Summary
Do breeders rear more male than female greyhound puppies?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 5 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9266 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 17 February 1874
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 98–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9298 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 18 February 1874
Summary
Thanks for answering his query on greyhound puppies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 18 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9300 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [before 5 April 1874]
Summary
Subscribes to a reprint of Pieter Boddaert’s Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle [check ‘éez’!?] [1874].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | [before 5 Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.458) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9389 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 April 1874
Summary
Many thanks for Boddaert [see 9389].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 5 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9390 |
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