To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 16 January [1866]
Summary
What progress has been made with pigeon drawings for Variation?
Can WBT persuade Mr Zurhorst to repeat a pigeon experiment?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 16 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4977 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 6 April [1865] and nn. 3 and 4). …
- … sent Tegetmeier his copy in June 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter from W. B. …
- … letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] and n. 17). For details of the varieties of pigeon illustrated in Variation , see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, …
- … 13, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier to John Murray and R. F. Cooke, 17 April 1865, and …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 22 January [1866]
Summary
Discusses pigeon and poultry woodcuts [for Variation].
WBT’s poultry book is at last in the hands of a solvent publisher [The poultry book (1867)].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4983 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Tegetmeier ( ibid. , letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 2 June [1865] ). However, CD was able …
- … vol. 13, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, [29 March – 7 April 1865] ). CD replied that he …
- … 1865] ). The engravers were Butterworth and Heath ( ibid. , letter from W. B. Tegetmeier …
- … 1865 (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 16 January [1866] and n. 4). Tegetmeier refers to CD’s request that Tegetmeier ask Frederick William Zurhorst to repeat an experiment on eggs from a cross between Cochin and Spanish fowl (see letter to W. B. …
From John Gould 10 May 1866
Summary
Gives CD genus and species names of the singular humming-bird; distressed by specific name made necessary by revised laws of nomenclature.
Author: | John Gould |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5086 |
To John Murray 22 February [1866]
Summary
CD is pleased [about need for a new edition of Origin] but even more grieved – for it will delay his next book [Variation]. Progress of natural history will make many changes necessary in Origin. Nevertheless, proceeds with 32 more woodcuts for Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 139–142) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5016 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 12 September 1866
Summary
Has had the blocks cut as requested and forwards the proofs.
Encloses article on habits of jungle fowl.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5211 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Corrrespondence vol. 13, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 February [1865] and n. 5). See …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 9 July [1866]
Summary
WBT’s fowls’ skulls are being engraved; will see pigeon illustration proofs when he can.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 9 July [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5152 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … breeds (see ibid. , letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 February [1865] ). Tegetmeier’s …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 2 August 1866
Summary
Encloses feathers from a diseased hen which has assumed cock plumage.
Forwards proofs of the engravings for Variation.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5171 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 15 October 1866
Summary
The blocks [for Variation] have been forwarded to Murray.
WBT has been corresponding with Prof. Newton.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5243 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 ). Alfred Newton , …
- … 13, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier to John Murray and R. F. Cooke, 17 April 1865). John …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 August [1866]
Summary
Comments on pigeon and poultry woodcuts.
Observations and queries on poultry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 4 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5176 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … see Correspondence vol. 13, letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 6 April [1865] and [7 April …
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 4 August 1866]
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Aug 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5180 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 February [1865] and n. 3. …
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 24 January 1866]
Summary
Thanks for the remittance.
Both WBT and Mr Zurhorst will repeat Zurhorst’s experiment to eliminate any chance of error.
Edward Blyth is writing on Indian cattle for the Field [27 (1866): 55–6, 77].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Jan 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4979 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and nn. 11 and 12). CD had wanted Frederick William Zurhorst to repeat an earlier experiment (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, …
To Ernst Haeckel 20 January [1866]
Summary
Sends copies of photographs of himself. Asks for photographs of German naturalists.
Comments on EH’s account of Protogenes primordialis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 20 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4980 |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Gould, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (9) |
Gould, John | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |