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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]

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Summary

Sends some replies to CD’s queries and data on pigeon flights between Bordeaux and Verviers.

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]

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[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
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