To W. B. Tegetmeier 17 April 1869
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
Ap 17. 1869.
My dear Sir
If not inconvenient I shd be grateful for any scraps of information about the plumage of the chickens of Cuckoo breeds & Seabright bantams, if you have been able to obtain such.1 Also the table of the greyhound births, if you have been able to set the clerk to work.2 I must, in about a week’s time, begin on subjects which lead me much to require the above information.
Have you had any success about eggs?3
Forgive me for being so troublesome & believe me | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
P.S. If you shd ever meet any one who breeds Sebastopol geese, cd you find out at what age the curled feathers first appear?4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1867. The poultry book: comprising the breeding and management of profitable and ornamental poultry, their qualities and characteristics; to which is added ‘The standard of excellence in exhibition birds’, authorized by the Poultry Club. London and New York: George Routledge & Sons.
Summary
Wants information on plumage of chickens
and table of sex ratios in greyhounds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6698
- 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
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6698,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6698.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
