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DCP-LETT-2630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
9 [July 1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 2)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot answer SPW’s questions.

Discusses antiquity of subaerial volcanoes.

Disagrees "entirely & absolutely" with L. von Buch’s "elevation-crater-theory".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
14 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library DC AL 1/7)
Summary:

Thanks HGB for agreeing to superintend translation of Origin.

Comments on HGB’s review.

Encloses corrections and preface for Schweizerbart. Discusses translation of term "natural selection".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2740

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
1 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 7)
Summary:

Has no drone cells in collection of honeycombs. Discusses construction of cells by bees and ability of bees to judge distances in constructing comb.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2829

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
11 June [1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 17)
Summary:

On what kind of moth have pollen-masses of orchids been found cohering? Will ask Mr Parfitt if he is certain he recognised pollen-masses of bee orchid. CD thinks green masses were those of true Orchis.

[In P.S., having received a letter on subject from HTS responding to same query published in Gard. Chron. 9 June 1860:] It is extremely curious that the same moth has been found with pollen-masses in two parts of England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2839

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
20 June [1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 18)
Summary:

Has had a very satisfactory answer from Mr Parfitt. Asks HTS to insert query in Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer and also to answer it himself. ["Do the Tineina and other small moths suck flowers?", Collected papers 2: 35–6.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-60-07-25d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
25 July 1860
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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