From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
25 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A50–1
Summary:
Mrs Henslow’s death stirs reminiscences of happier days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Feb 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 222
Summary:
General success of survey makes CD very concerned about sources of error. Wants to meet JDH for an important talk about big genera. Arranges meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 [Feb 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 219
Summary:
Returns books by Candolle and Robert Brown.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 223
Summary:
Six volumes of Candolle’s Prodromus confirm rule that small genera vary less than large. Labiatae an exception to rule.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1858
Source of text:
DAR 181: 22
Summary:
Bees’ cells. Observations on Osmia atricapilla.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Balfour Baikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1858
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 260
Summary:
Describes some species of fauna peculiar to Fernando Po. The ocean currents make it unlikely that animals have been floated to the little islands [off the west coast of Africa].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
11 [Feb 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 22
Summary:
Writes of domestic matters
and asks WED to observe cart-horses for traces of dark stripes on spine and cross-stripes on shoulder.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1858
Source of text:
DAR 181: 23
Summary:
GRW’s observations of and ideas on bees’ and wasps’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
22 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 20)
Summary:
CD and J. D. Hooker have differed on the following question and agreed to ask several botanists: would a good botanist describing a local flora record varieties as readily in large as in small genera?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1858
Source of text:
DAR 160: 202
Summary:
Gives some observations on birds; has forwarded a box of specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 224
Summary:
Fertilisation of clover by bees in New Zealand.
Uneasy about biggest genera and their varieties.
H. T. Buckle’s sophistry [History of civilisation in England (1857)].
Working on bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A21–2
Summary:
Believes that botanists tend to mark more varieties in large than in small genera, but notes that where many varieties of a species exist these varieties may well be passed over, whereas similar varieties of another species which are fewer in number may well be recorded.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25] Feb 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 115a–d
Summary:
Botanical practice can confuse CD’s compilations. Many small genera would have been species had the whole natural order [family] been known.
JDH’s low opinion of Buckle;
high opinion of Mrs Farrer.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
27 [Feb 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 23
Summary:
CD intends to enter WED at Christ’s College.
Thanks him for inquiries made about horses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 225
Summary:
JDH has confirmed CD’s opinion on the affinities of species in great genera. Is looking at large genera in several local Floras to find the "range & commonness of varying species".
Has been "beyond measure interested" in the construction instincts of the hive-bee.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1858
Source of text:
DAR 98: A146–7
Summary:
States his belief that there is a tendency to note varieties in the larger genera rather than in the very small ones.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
4 Mar [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 21)
Summary:
Notes views of Hooker and George Bentham on monotypic forms.
Has tabulated several floras and finds that large genera show preponderance in numbers of varieties. Now sees his results are quite worthless.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 226
Summary:
C. C. Babington agrees with JDH that botanists tend to note varieties more in large genera than in very small ones.
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
Correspondent
- Babington, C. C.3
- Baikie, W. B.1
- Blomefield, Leonard1
- Blyth, Edward2
- Brewer, T. M.1
- Brodie, B.2
- Burningham, James1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Coe, Henry4
- Darwin, C. R.121
- Darwin, E. A.5
- Darwin, Emma10
- Darwin, W. E.22
- Dilke, C. W.2
- Egan, James1
- Evans, John1
- Eyton, T. C.1
- Falconer, Hugh1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Gould, A. A.1
- Gray, Asa2
- Henslow, J. S.30
- Hooker, J. D.54
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Jenyns, Leonard3
- Leighton, W. A.2
- Lubbock, John4
- Miller, W. H.3
- Moore, Charles (b)1
- Owen, Richard2
- Pearson, John (a)1
- Phillips, John1
- Philpott, Henry5
- Prestwich, Joseph2
- Ramsay, A. C.1
- Sedgwick, Adam3
- Smith, Frederick (a)2
- Spence, William4
- Stainton, H. T.1
- Swale, William1
- Vriese, W. H. de1
- Waterhouse, G. R.4
- Watson, H. C.4
- Wedgwood, Emma2
- Wells, Samuel2
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