To W. B. Tegetmeier [28 March – 14 April 1861]1
send them to me by enclosed address. as I rather want to see two of them.—
My dear Sir | yours sincerely | C. Darwin
I am getting together a few points to investigate.—
I think the Half-lop, had better be killed (not knocked on Head) if you get one.—2
I have not yet opened the Box with the Skulls; for I have not yet come to Skeleton.—3
Footnotes
The date range is established by the relationship between this letter and the letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 28 March [1861] and 14 April [1861] (Correspondence vol. 9).
CD was interested in how the skulls of domestic rabbits were modified by the lengthening and lopping of their ears; the half-lop rabbit has one ear lopping forward, and a correspondingly asymmetrical skull (see Variation 2: 324–5).
Tegetmeier had lent CD his collection of fowl skulls for his work on Variation (see Variation 1: 260, and Correspondence vol. 9, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 28 March [1861]).
Summary
Asks for some unspecified items to be sent to him. The Half-lop [rabbit] should be killed, but without damaging the skull. Has not opened the box with skulls yet.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3103F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- Source of text
- Max Rambod (dealer) (February 2008)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3103F,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)
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