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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Comments on pigeon and poultry woodcuts.

Observations and queries on poultry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (85)
Summary:

Thanks for AG’s trouble about new edition of Origin.

Will be printing his new book [Variation] at the end of the year.

[Forwarded by AG, with covering note, to Mr Fields of Ticknor & Fields.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 87–8
Summary:

Alexander Beatson mentions a bird in considerable numbers on St Helena which appears to contradict CD’s statement in Journal of researches that only introduced land birds exist there.

The Azores flora and fauna tell heavily against Atlantis joining them with America and against transoceanic migration from America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1866
Source of text:
DAR 170: 53
Summary:

Returns Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Aug 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 74
Summary:

Alterations to the woodcuts of poultry for Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project