To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 February [1868]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Feb 21.
My dear Sir
I have received & thank you most sincerely for the Horse returns: they are very interesting to me, & practically show the proportion of sexes nearly equal.2 I am in no hurry, so do the work whenever you have leisure & inclination.— I shd be very glad if you will undertake cattle as well as Horses & Dogs.—3 I presume that no materials exist for Sheep.—4
I suppose you are too busy a man to try whether a magenta-coloured pigeon would please or disgust his associates.5
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
I will almost certainly publish your results, so that your labour under a public point of view will not be thrown away.
I returned this morning the Coursing Calendar to Field office—6
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
Thanks WBT for tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5906
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5906,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5906.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16