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DCP-LETT-2048

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
6 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Would welcome eggs of any rumpless fowl so that he can investigate how early in development rudimentary organs are rudimentary.

Has not noticed much difference between skeletons of ducks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2051

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
11 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD is sending two pairs of Persian fowl, from Hon. C. Murray.

Thanks WBT for various offers: a drake, a young silk fowl, a rumpless chick.

The German pouters are not old-fashioned ones but fancy birds, probably crosses since they do not breed true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2054

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has some fowls from Sir James Brooke, which WBT might like to display at Zoological Society.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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