To W. B. Tegetmeier 26 [January 1863]
Summary
Has WBT ever heard of a case of the regeneration of monstrous (extra) toe on fowls?
Inquires about a curious pigeon reported at the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 26 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3944 |
To H. W. Bates 26 January [1863]
Summary
Congratulations on marriage, which CD considers the best and only chance for happiness in this world.
Glad HWB is near completion of book.
Begs him to thank Wallace for Melastoma information; CD "cannot endure being beaten by a beggarly flower".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 26 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3945 |
From Thomas Rivers 26 January 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin.
TR has often thought naturalists do not pay enough attention to the effect of site, soil, and climate on animals and plants and "hence has arisen the enormous number of so-called species".
His observations on people of different counties.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3946 |
From Friedrich Rolle 26 January 1863
Summary
Pleased that his book, Ch. Darwin’s Lehre [1863], has CD’s approval.
FR formerly a geologist, now a dealer in natural history objects.
Most active supporter of CD’s theory is Gustav Jäger in Vienna.
FR regards fossil Hipparion as a link between horse and pachyderms.
Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3947 |
To Francis Trevelyan Buckland 26 January [1863]
Summary
Asks FB’s help in identifying an article in The Field about the fins of fishes growing again after being cut off, and inquiring whether he has heard of the re-growth of organs in the mammalia or birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 26 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (23 June 1993, lot 146) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3948F |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 26 January 1863]
Summary
Does not believe in regeneration of monstrous toe.
Pigeon and poultry experiments.
Peculiar pigeon at Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 26 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3949 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 26–7 January 1863
Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26–7 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3948 |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
Rolle, Friedrich | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
Rolle, Friedrich | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |