From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Hunt
Date:
28 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.250)
Summary:
Thanks President and Council of Ethnological Society for his election.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 May [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Has completed MS on poultry [for Variation].
Thanks for information on their courtship.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
28 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 320
Summary:
Thanks for railway map.
Surprised about Richard Owen: "I thought his courage was as indomitable as his malignity."
Sends extract [Sir John Herschel, "Physical geography", from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1861)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 144
Summary:
[Queries in CD’s hand answered on same pages by WBT.] Sexual selection of fowls; role of beauty in cocks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
