My dear Sir

I was very glad to see your own hand writing again and to hear you are better—²

With regard to the number of sexes I send by this post a Coursing Calendar³   at page 50. etc you will find the produce of bitches for one year (about 160 in number). this will give you about 1000 births— —

Unfortunately the table was not made up for other years—but I could make up a similar table from the pages of the Field and Bells life if the numbers for one year are not sufficient for you⁴

Race horses are given in the racing Calendar.— In the beginning of the next week I shall be less busy & will make you an abstract of the yearly accounts of the thorough bred horses for some twenty years.⁵

I will also look over the herd books for cattle.—as I have no doubt that similar tables can be compiled from them

With regard to fish I think you have applied to the wrong quarters

The gentleman you have named will be very willing to oblige you but I do not think he has had any means of arriving at any precise data on the subject—⁶ It is a difficult question but Robert Buist Esq The superintendent of Fisheries—Perth, would I think be able to give you some accurate information as he has hatched thousands of salmon and kept them for many months afterwards— I will insert a letter in the Field asking for information that I cannot readily obtain from other quarters—⁷

Please return the coursing calendar to me at Field office when done with. any time will do— I received the volumes from M^r Murray⁸   I need not tell you how greatly I am obliged to you for them and still more for the kind manner in which you acknowledged the very small amount of assistance that I have been able to afford you⁹

Do not trouble to reply to this as I shall be writing again with the race horse returns— As there are about 1500 or 1600 race horse births a year I suppose 20 years returns will be amply sufficient

Truly Yours | W B Tegetmeier

C Darwin Esq