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
Hoped to meet CD at the Linnean Society to discuss pigeon and poultry breeding experiments.
Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Sends Acropera capsule for CD to dissect.
Will try to raise Acropera from seed (never done before in Britain) to examine its sexual forms.
Studying primroses, parthenogenesis, and reproduction of some cryptogams.
Received maize varieties from CD.