From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 178: 67
Summary:
MS [of CD’s pigeon chapter] arrived safely.
Pigeon and poultry engravings [for Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
MS [of CD’s pigeon chapter] arrived safely.
Pigeon and poultry engravings [for Variation].
Roguery at Kew.
Who wrote reviews of Linnean Society’s Transactions, of Planchon, and of subspecies in Natural History Review [Apr 1865]?
Is rereading Origin for second French edition.
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
Supports Atlantis hypothesis.
No summary available.
Recounts efforts to establish The Reader as a respected weekly journal of science. Asks that JH submit material for publication in it.
No summary available.