From W. B. Tegetmeier 17 March 1879
Summary
Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11940 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 2 November 1881
Summary
Encloses his review of Earthworms.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13453 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 4 May [1861]
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 May [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 256 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3139 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [28 May 1861]
Summary
[Queries in CD’s hand answered on same pages by WBT.] Sexual selection of fowls; role of beauty in cocks.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 May 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3166 |
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 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 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 29 June – 7 July 1863
Summary
Progress of pigeon and poultry breeding experiments. No loss of fertility observed yet.
Blue-eyed cats and deafness.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 June – 7 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4233 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [c. 26 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a cutting from the Field: C. R. Bree on zebra-striped asses.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 26 Sept 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4314 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 21 December 1864]
Summary
Sends paper on mimetic analogy [Intellect. Obs. 6 (1864): 307–13].
Mongrel experiments are progressing, but he has observed no signs of sterility.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 21 Dec 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4687 |
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 |
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 [28 February – 5 March 1865]
Summary
Encloses some poultry feathers.
Will read over and return CD’s MS on fowls. Has been delayed by an eye injury.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Feb – 5 Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4787 |
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 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 10 April 1865
Summary
MS [of CD’s pigeon chapter] arrived safely.
Pigeon and poultry engravings [for Variation].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4808 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 20 June 1865
Summary
WBT will try experiment for CD if Mr Zurhorst cannot do it.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4864 |
From William Bernhard Tegetmeier 8 January [1868?]
Summary
Has seen CD’s "carte" offered for sale.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4971 |
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 |
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 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 4 July 1866
Summary
All the blocks [for Variation] are now engraved except the rock-dove.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5143 |