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

What progress has been made with pigeon drawings for Variation?

Can WBT persuade Mr Zurhorst to repeat a pigeon experiment?

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

WBT’s fowls’ skulls are being engraved; will see pigeon illustration proofs when he can.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
10 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks WBT for help with woodcuts [for Variation].

Has returned WBT’s curious feathers.

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

Blocks for Variation are much improved. WBT deserves membership in Zoological Society.

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

Hopes to begin printing Variation at the beginning of next year.

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

Is tempted to cite Mr Zurhorst’s case.

Hopes to send pigeon and fowl MS [of Variation] to press in a fortnight.

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

Gives his opinion on the ancestry of domestic ducks, geese, and guinea-fowl.

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

Thanks for calling his attention to ancestry of guinea-fowl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project