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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[8 May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cottage Gardener
Date:
[after 8 May 1860]
Source of text:
Cottage Gardener 24 (1860): 143
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 [May 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.211)
Summary:
Did not know about separation between Silurian and Cambrian.
Cannot attend Geological Society meeting.
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] ill.
Sedgwick in his attack at Cambridge Philosophical Society states "there must be [on CD’s theory] large genera not varying".
Discusses migration of plants and animals from Old World to New.
Views of Asa Gray on Aster.
Mentions flora of coal period.
Has been elected to Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Stewardson
Date:
8 May 1860
Source of text:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia
Summary:
Acknowledges his election as Correspondent of Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 May [1860]
Source of text:
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
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
8 May [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A67–9
Summary:
Comments on Richard Owen’s review of the Origin [in Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532]. Considers Owen unfair to CD and most ungenerous toward Hooker.
Expects Sedgwick to be fierce against him. Sedgwick also misrepresented CD in his Spectator review [24 Mar and 7 Apr 1860].
Compares natural selection to the undulatory theory of light as a hypothesis explaining a large number of facts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1860
Source of text:
DAR 76 (ser. 2): 166–7
Summary:
Observations on hybrids from crossed cabbage varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Daniel Maclise
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 May 1860
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.28
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Woronzow Greig
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.40
Summary:
William King (Earl of Lovelace) was in Somerset when JH's letter arrived, but he placed it before him on his return. Thinks the G. Hartnell affair is the responsibility of J. R. Townshend (3rd Vicount Sydney). His own mother is doing well considering her age. Hopes JH has had good news from India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Norman Pogson
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.6
Summary:
Describes efforts to secure position at Oxford's Radcliffe Observatory, noting JH's testimonial. Suggests AH observe four circumpolar variables and makes other recommendations concerning AH's observation program.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project