To W. B. Tegetmeier 20 July [1860]
Summary
Asks whether crossing breeds of hive-bees is advantageous
and whether different pigeon breeds have different incubation periods.
Explains and apologises for the lack of detailed quotations in Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 20 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2872 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 20 July [1860] …
- … few months earlier. See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 8 May [1860] . CD cited Tegetmeier’s …
- … 1: 170. See letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 17 April [1860] , and to Cottage Gardener , [ …
- … Entomological Society ( Tegetmeier 1860 ). See also letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 30 July [ …
- … and 233. See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 17 April [1860] . CD recorded in his ‘Journal’ …
- … on 8 August 1860 (see n. 3, above). See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 8 May [1860] . …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 24 [February? 1860]
Summary
Discusses poultry crosses, "what a hopelessly difficult subject is that of inheritance!" Gives details of some pigeon crosses he made; cannot positively recall which produced the blue bird.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 24 [Feb? 1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2712 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 24 [February? 1860] …
- … relationship to the letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 20 January [1860] , and by CD’s remark …
- … interval. See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 20 January [1860] , in which CD described the …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 30 July [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information on pigeon hatching
and on drones.
Believes occasional crosses indispensable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 30 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2883 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 30 July [1860] …
- … s claim (see letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 17 April [1860] , and to Cottage Gardener , [ …
- … until 2 August 1860 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 20 July [ …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 17 April [1860]
Summary
Sends queries for "Fanciers"
and asks about the mating of the queen bee.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 17 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2762 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 17 April [1860] …
- … 1828 , p. 319. See letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 20 July [1860] and 30 July [1860] , and …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 1 September [1860]
Summary
Regrets he has nothing that he could contribute to the Field and cannot spare the time to work out anything on bees’ cells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 1 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2904 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 1 September [1860] …
- … of hive-bee ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 20 July [1860] ). Tegetmeier reported some of …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 May [1860]
Summary
Thanks WBT for observations on colours of newly-hatched pigeons of different breeds. Asks if breeders have noticed any differences in lengths of time eggs were incubated in different breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 8 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale Collection of American Literature: De Forest Family Papers (YCAL MSS 582) Box 2, folder 58, item 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2790 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 May [1860] …
- … 1860 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The manuscript was eventually published as part of Variation . The case referred to was described in Variation 1: 170: Mr. Tegetmeier has informed me of a curious and inexplicable case of correlation, namely, that young pigeons of all breeds, which when mature become white, yellow, silver ( i.e . extremely pale blue), or dun-coloured, are born almost naked; whereas other coloured pigeons are born well clothed with down. The case was mentioned again in Variation 2: 332. See also Correspondence vol. 6, letters to W. B. …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 April [1861]
Summary
Inquires about rabbits.
Sends list of queries on poultry.
WBT’s fowls’ skulls have arrived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 14 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3118 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … of fowl (see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 17 April [1860] and …
- … 1860] ). The enclosure is in DAR 84.1: 145. Tegetmeier’s response to CD’s queries is written on the back (see letter from W. B. …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 18 February 1863
Summary
Hoped to meet CD at the Linnean Society to discuss pigeon and poultry breeding experiments.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3995 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 8, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 24 [February? 1860] . CD concluded that ‘Silk-fowl’ …
- … 1860 (see CD’s Experimental notebook (DAR 157a), pp. 41–2, 49–50). See also Correspondence vol. 7, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … in 1859 and 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 [December …
From William Bernhard Tegetmeier 1 February 1864
Summary
Would like his fowl skulls back.
Breeding experiments seem to show mongrels are just as fertile as pure breeds.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4761 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 [December 1862] ). CD had made the crosses in 1859 and 1860 but …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 25 February [1861]
Summary
Would like to borrow WBT’s collection of fowls’ skulls.
Asks for WBT’s opinion of G. Ferguson, the author of a poultry book [Ferguson’s illustrated book of domestic poultry].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 25 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3070 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … vol. 8, letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 17 April [1860] and 20 July [1860] . CD discussed …
To Cottage Gardener [after 8 May 1860]
Summary
Inquires whether "a Devonshire Bee-keeper" [T. W. Woodbury] who reported a common drone entering a hive of Ligurian bees [Cottage Gard. 24 (1860): 94] believes, with Andrew Knight, that queen bees are seldom fertilised by their own blood-relations. Asks how far a hive of common bees was from that of the Ligurians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Cottage Gardener |
Date: | [after 8 May 1860] |
Classmark: | Cottage Gardener 24 (1860): 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2777 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 307. See also letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 17 April [1860] . In a reply, dated 24 May, …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 27 [December 1862]
Summary
CD interested in hybrid sterility and encloses his preliminary MS. Outlines experiments to test for existence of sterility in breeds of poultry and pigeons.
Experiments on dimorphism have led him to change in part his opinion as given in Origin, and he is now asking pigeon and poultry fanciers for any examples of special selective sterility [i.e., a particular pair are sterile when crossed, but each individual is fertile with others] and hopes to investigate its inheritance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 27 [Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3877 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1860 with a male Spanish fowl provided by Tegetmeier (see Correspondence vol. 7, letters to W. B. …
To B. D. Walsh 4 December [1864]
Summary
Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".
The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4695 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … vol. 8, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 30 July [1860] and n. 4, and Appendix VII and n. …
From Charles Théophile Gaudin [15 August 1860]
Summary
Offers to supply CD with information about a new "race" of bees with a larger proboscis. They produce more honey as a result of being able to probe to greater depths.
Author: | Charles-Théophile Gaudin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Aug 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2897 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1860]; on the second, see the letters to the Cottage Gardener , [after 8 May 1860], and to W. B. Tegetmeier, …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 19 February [1863]
Summary
Discusses experiments that WBT will undertake to investigate whether particular pigeon and poultry crosses produce sterile hybrids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 19 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3998 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1860, was the production of ‘plenty of eggs & chickens; but two of these seemed to be quite sterile’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, …
To T. H. Huxley 9 January [1860]
Summary
Sends ticket to pigeon show.
A quotation from Erasmus Darwin’s Zoonomia [1794, 1796] shows that he anticipated Lamarck.
G. Grote impressed by Times review [26 Dec 1859, p. 8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 96) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2646 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1860 at the Freemason’s Tavern, London ( Cottage Gardener , 17 January 1860, p. 248). CD had been a member of the society since 1855 (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, …
To Robert Swinhoe [September 1866]
Summary
Hooker’s lecture to BAAS ["Insular floras"] was capital,
but hears Wallace’s paper [Address to Anthropology Section, Rep. BAAS 36 (1866): 93–4] was best.
Pleased RS continues zealous work for natural history.
CD considers the report that N. American antelopes’ horns are intermediate between hollow and solid horns of ruminants to be one of the more curious facts he has lately heard of with respect to higher animals [C. A. Canfield, "On the habits of the prongbuck", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 105–11].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
Date: | [Sept 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 329r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5202 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1860; he had been unable to complete it because of long intervals of poor health and numerous interruptions revising or writing other works (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, …
To Charles Lyell 28 August [1860]
Summary
The adultery of Lady [Harriet Spencer] Grey and Captain Keppell.
A new species of elephant discovered by Hugh Falconer.
Comments on excellent review by Asa Gray [Atlantic Monthly 6 (1860): 229–39].
Still believes dogs descended from several wild stocks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 28 Aug [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.224) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2900 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1860 issue, pp. 361–76. According to the Wellesley index 2: 779, the review was by the editor, Richard Simpson . James Brooke , Rajah of Saráwak, had sent CD specimens of domestic animals from the Malay Archipelago (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, …
To A. R. Wallace 27 July [1872]
Summary
On ARW’s "crushing" review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of C. R. Bree’s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr Darwin.
Comments on other reviews and exchanges.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 27 July [1872] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8429 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 May [1872] . There is an annotated copy of Bree’s earlier book, Species not transmutable ( Bree 1860 ) …
letter | (24) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Gaudin, C.-T. | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (11) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Cottage Gardener | (1) |
Elliot, Walter | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (14) |
Cottage Gardener | (1) |
Elliot, Walter | (1) |
Gaudin, C.-T. | (1) |