Search: Tegetmeier, W. B. in correspondent 
letter in document-type 
1860-1869 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 101106 of 106 items

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 81
Summary:

Sends C. M. Browne’s notes on transmission of colour in greyhounds [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 40]

and a letter from Major Holland.

WBT to visit America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
21 July [1869]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Further queries on poultry plumage.

WBT’s visit to America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
25 Aug 1869
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (6 June 2001)
Summary:

He will send carrier to the Field office to collect pigeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
1 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Chickens have arrived safely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
John Murray; Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
17 Apr 1865
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 136–138)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project