From W. B. Tegetmeier 13 March 1865
Summary
Will return page on pigeons.
Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.
The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4785 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 27 March 1865
Summary
Sends copies of the Field containing all the pigeon articles [see 4785].
Luke Wells will undertake engravings for Variation.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4796 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [29 March – 7 April 1865]
Summary
WBT’s eye is getting on very well.
Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 Mar – 7 Apr 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 62, 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4803 |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. |