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To W. B. Tegetmeier   14 September [1866]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Sept. 14th

My dear Sir

I have had much pleasure in signing the enclosed. No one has a better right to be a member of the Zoological Soc. than yourself.2 Many thanks for the blocks, which I think are greatly improved by being cut.3 When I receive the last I will write to Mr Murray about paying for the lot.4

Many thanks for the Field: it is an interesting article, but contains nothing particularly new.— How hydra-headed the error is about the Gallus Sonneratii5

My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Your note is dated 12th. but I only got this morning & I am very sorry that I quite forgot it was Friday, but you ought to receive this tomorrow, Saturday)

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 12 September 1866.
2
Tegetmeier had asked CD to sign a letter of application for membership in the Zoological Society of London (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 12 September 1866).
4
CD’s letter to his publisher, John Murray, regarding payment for the woodcuts for Variation has not been found, but see the letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 16 October [1866].
5
CD refers to the claim made in a recent issue of the Field that some domestic breeds of fowl were descended from Gallus sonneratii (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 12 September 1866 and nn. 5 and 6).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5212,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5212