From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 83
Summary:
Points out errata in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 197
Summary:
WBT’s beard exceptional in that it is darker than his hair [see Descent 2: 319].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [July] 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 173–4
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 98–9
Summary:
Gives the answers of two of the best dog breeders to CD’s queries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
CD agrees to subscribe to reprint of Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 June 1862
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.279)
Summary:
Testimonial in support of WBT’s application for curatorship of the Hartley Institution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Did not know of complex change of plumage. From WBT’s letter, CD thinks six weeks to two months old is the best period. Sends details of breeds and other particulars.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project