From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 79
Summary:
Agrees to help determine the sex ratios in domestic animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Agrees to help determine the sex ratios in domestic animals.
Slashing article on Variation in Athenæum.
Discussion of relationships of various pigs.
Returns Anthropological Review.
Asks to borrow Desmarest on Crustacea [Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825)].
Has been reading JL’s address to the Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d. ser. 5 (1865–7): cxiii–cxxxi].
Would like to hear JL’s conclusion for or against Pangenesis.
Is much obliged that WBT will undertake tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses, greyhounds, and cattle.