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
MS [of CD’s pigeon chapter] arrived safely.
Pigeon and poultry engravings [for Variation].
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
Supports Atlantis hypothesis.