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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
25 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has read the Field review of Descent ["Darwin on the descent of man", 37 (1871): 210]. Thanks WBT for his remarks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 July [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of WBT’s book [Pheasants for coverts and aviaries (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 July [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

One of WBT’s poultry skulls has been misplaced; CD cannot believe he neglected to return it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
20 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether any goose sifts water with its beak.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Bartlett
Date:
[24] Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for goose specimens.

Asks whether Egyptian goose throws water out of side of beak. Can it tear herbage like the domestic goose?

[Mistakenly dated 16 Sept by CD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Sends photograph of himself for a proposed memoir in correspondent’s Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
19 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Can ADB allow T. W. Wood to sketch one of his dogs in hostile and friendly positions?

Do elephants in the Zoological Gardens carry tails aloft when excited?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project