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DCP-LETT-8322

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 175–6, DAR 90: 101, DAR 178: 83, DAR 193: 22
Summary:

Has found the skull of the horned cock.

With regard to CD’s suggestion about the possibility of producing a pigeon breed with differently coloured sexes, WBT reports the results of crossing blue and silver dragons; the silver offspring are almost always hens.

Would like the latest edition of the Origin.

Encloses notes on volume one [of Descent].

Encloses a photograph showing the bleaching effect of the sun’s rays on dun feathers in pigeons.

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DCP-LETT-5882

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16–20 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 80
Summary:

Encloses information on sex ratios in thoroughbred horses.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11946

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:
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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.

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DCP-LETT-6210

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.

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DCP-LETT-11940

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 84
Summary:

Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13453

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 85
Summary:

Encloses his review of Earthworms.

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DCP-LETT-3139

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 256
Summary:

Sends some replies to CD’s queries and data on pigeon flights between Bordeaux and Verviers.

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DCP-LETT-3166

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.

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DCP-LETT-3949

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 26 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 56
Summary:

Does not believe in regeneration of monstrous toe.

Pigeon and poultry experiments.

Peculiar pigeon at Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3995

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 178: 57
Summary:

Hoped to meet CD at the Linnean Society to discuss pigeon and poultry breeding experiments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4233

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June – 7 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 178: 58
Summary:

Progress of pigeon and poultry breeding experiments. No loss of fertility observed yet.

Blue-eyed cats and deafness.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4314

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 26 Sept 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 59
Summary:

Encloses a cutting from the Field: C. R. Bree on zebra-striped asses.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4687

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 Dec 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 60
Summary:

Sends paper on mimetic analogy [Intellect. Obs. 6 (1864): 307–13].

Mongrel experiments are progressing, but he has observed no signs of sterility.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4761

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 178: 61
Summary:

Would like his fowl skulls back.

Breeding experiments seem to show mongrels are just as fertile as pure breeds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4785

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 178: 63
Summary:

Will return page on pigeons.

Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.

The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4787

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Feb – 5 Mar 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 64
Summary:

Encloses some poultry feathers.

Will read over and return CD’s MS on fowls. Has been delayed by an eye injury.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4796

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 178: 65
Summary:

Sends copies of the Field containing all the pigeon articles [see 4785].

Luke Wells will undertake engravings for Variation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4803

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Mar – 7 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 62, 66
Summary:

WBT’s eye is getting on very well.

Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4808

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].

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