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DCP-LETT-3108

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
2 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Details of peculiarities in poultry.

Is examining wild varieties of rabbit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3118

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Inquires about rabbits.

Sends list of queries on poultry.

WBT’s fowls’ skulls have arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3164

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

DCP-LETT-3237

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
29 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
Victoria and Albert Museum (Baillie collection, MSL/1959/3736/16, Pressmark 86.QQ.1)
Summary:

Asks for return of his MS [unspecified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3478

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Orchids taking up all his time.

He longs to be at work again on poultry and rabbits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3612

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
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DCP-LETT-3687

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
12 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

WBT’s "too kind and flattering" article on Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3869

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 [Dec 1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Can WBT help get an answer to a query on ducks?

Has heard of a case of special sterility in cattle, in which a particular pair are sterile, but the individuals are both fertile with others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3877

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
27 [Dec 1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD interested in hybrid sterility and encloses his preliminary MS. Outlines experiments to test for existence of sterility in breeds of poultry and pigeons.

Experiments on dimorphism have led him to change in part his opinion as given in Origin, and he is now asking pigeon and poultry fanciers for any examples of special selective sterility [i.e., a particular pair are sterile when crossed, but each individual is fertile with others] and hopes to investigate its inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3944

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
26 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has WBT ever heard of a case of the regeneration of monstrous (extra) toe on fowls?

Inquires about a curious pigeon reported at the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3998

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
19 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses experiments that WBT will undertake to investigate whether particular pigeon and poultry crosses produce sterile hybrids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
9 July [1863]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

WBT progressing with breeding experiments for CD.

CD making quicker progress with Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4533

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 June [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Sends MS on fowls for WBT’s inspection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4720

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
21 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD working on Variation; he will soon want corrected fowl MS [Variation, ch. 7].

WBT’s breeding experiments produced no sterility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4776

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
27 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Wants his fowl MS.

Will shortly return WBT’s skulls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4779

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
6 [Mar 1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks for return of page about pigeon crossing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4786

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Arrangements for woodcuts for Variation.

WBT’s excellent article on crossing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4804

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
6 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Instructions for Luke Wells about woodcuts for Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[7 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Fowl MS has arrived safely.

Sends pigeon MS for WBT’s perusal.

Further instructions for Luke Wells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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