From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 69
Summary:
A bee’s sting always remains behind.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John David Glennie, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1861
Source of text:
DAR 48: 70–3
Summary:
The stinging of bees and wasps contrasted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Birch
Date:
6 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
British Museum (Department of the Middle East, Correspondence 1826–67: 1493
Summary:
Requests information about Japanese and Chinese encyclopedias,
about the rarity of fowls with black feathers,
and about date of the king Thouthmosis III.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Watson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.385
Summary:
Sends photographic copy of mural tablet TW placed in chapel of St. John's College to honor TW's late uncle, Thomas Catton.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project