From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 198
Summary:
Thanks CD for specimens of, and curious facts on, the "harvesting ant".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 11.2: 65a
Summary:
Sends drawings of two forms of workers of Cryptocerus discocephalus in response to CD’s request for examples of insects whose workers show disparity of form.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1858
Source of text:
DAR 177: 191 (fragile)
Summary:
Identifies an ant described by CD and discusses the predatory habits of Formica sanguinea.
Describes some wasps’ nests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1859
Source of text:
DAR 177: 192 (fragile)
Summary:
Reports his observations on the habits of slave-making ants (Formica sanguinea).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1860
Source of text:
DAR 177 (fragile)
Summary:
Has studied CD’s Jamaican hive-bees and finds them identical to Apis mellifica.
Discusses the structure of wasps’ and bees’ nests
and the occurrence of winged and apterous individuals within some insect genera and species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 194
Summary:
Roughly identifies some insects sent by CD; is waiting to see Francis Walker, who, he believes, has written a monograph on the family to which they belong.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 195
Summary:
Has seen Francis Walker, who has identified CD’s two Hymenoptera species ["caught in Musk Orchis" – CD note].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 196
Summary:
Has been unable to find a book [unspecified] wanted by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 197
Summary:
Discusses the stinging habits of wasps and bees and whether or not they leave their sting in the wound.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 10 Mar 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 82: 7
Summary:
On the relative size of sexes in aculeate Hymenoptera. [See Descent 1: 347–8.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: 1–2
Summary:
On the colours of sexes of Australian bees [see Descent 1: 366].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: A5–6
Summary:
On stridulation of Coleoptera, Trox sabulosus, Mutilla. [See Descent 1: 380.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: A3
Summary:
Both sexes of Mononychus pseudacori and other Coleoptera stridulate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: 4
Summary:
Sends reference to stridulation in an article about Scolytus by Dr Chapman "Observations on the economy of British species of Scolytus", Entomol. Mon. Mag. 6 (1870): 126–31.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
[before 9 Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR Pamphlet collection (bound with Smith, Frederick (a) 1854)
Summary:
Four queries regarding the habits of bees and ants with answers by FS interlined between each query.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
[c. 17 Feb 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 162
Summary:
Sends, for identification, specimens of bees and wasps which fertilise orchids. [Notes in FS’s hand on the same sheet identify the specimens.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
