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:
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
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.
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 178: 68
Summary:
WBT will try experiment for CD if Mr Zurhorst cannot do it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 69
Summary:
Has seen CD’s "carte" offered for sale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 70
Summary:
Thanks for the remittance.
Both WBT and Mr Zurhorst will repeat Zurhorst’s experiment to eliminate any chance of error.
Edward Blyth is writing on Indian cattle for the Field [27 (1866): 55–6, 77].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 71
Summary:
Discusses pigeon and poultry woodcuts [for Variation].
WBT’s poultry book is at last in the hands of a solvent publisher [The poultry book (1867)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project