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From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 178: 82, DAR 193: 43
Summary:

Sends a letter by Mr Teebay on variation in wild ducks.

Offers to lend Dr Cooper’s book on game fowls.

Is preparing a new edition [1873] of his Poultry book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
15 July [1870]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

WBT may use any of CD’s material for the new edition of his poultry book. Hopes WBT will keep firmly to his idea of working out pigeon variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 197
Summary:

WBT’s beard exceptional in that it is darker than his hair [see Descent 2: 319].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 83
Summary:

Points out errata in Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [July] 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 173–4
Summary:

Sends Field with an account of the cat show; examples of cats with three extra toes.

Sexual preference of a blue turbit.

CD did not return skull of the horned cock figured in Variation [1: 265].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 175–6, DAR 90: 101, DAR 178: 83, DAR 193: 22
Summary:

Has found the skull of the horned cock.

With regard to CD’s suggestion about the possibility of producing a pigeon breed with differently coloured sexes, WBT reports the results of crossing blue and silver dragons; the silver offspring are almost always hens.

Would like the latest edition of the Origin.

Encloses notes on volume one [of Descent].

Encloses a photograph showing the bleaching effect of the sun’s rays on dun feathers in pigeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 May [1872]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for information on sexual colours in pigeons.

Will send latest edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Do breeders rear more male than female greyhound puppies?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 98–9
Summary:

Gives the answers of two of the best dog breeders to CD’s queries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for answering his query on greyhound puppies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[before 5 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.458)
Summary:

Subscribes to a reprint of Pieter Boddaert’s Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle [check ‘éez’!?] [1874].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Many thanks for Boddaert [see 9389].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Is preparing new edition of Variation and has a query on speed of racehorses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
15 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for answer to racehorse query;

would be grateful for correction of any errors in Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 84
Summary:

Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD agrees to subscribe to reprint of Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project