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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
A set of questions CD prepared for his meeting with WHM to discuss the geometry of bees’ cells.
Bees’ cells; GRW thinks hexagonal shape is accidental. Encloses notes on cells of Icaria.
Confidential revelation concerning W. F. Daniell.
Georg Hartung confirms CD’s supposition from flora of Azores that icebergs had been stranded there.
Has been at Moor Park since Tuesday. Is passing his time watching ants.
Has come to heavy grief about bees’ cells, unless Huber is wrong [François Huber, New observations on the natural history of bees, new ed. (1841)].
Discusses cart-horses and stripes on a Belgiman [Belgian?].
Relates domestic affairs.
Thinks his bees’ cell theory will hold good.
Discusses bees’ cells
and WED’s botanical interests.
Sends MS on large and small genera.
Observed slave-making ants at Moor Park.
[Six fragments, mainly diagrams.] The geometry of bees’ cells.
Relates events at home;
hopes WED gets the scholarship.
Arranges meeting with JDH at Thatched House Tavern.
Eager for JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Arrangements for JDH to visit Down for weekend.
Reports that N. J. Andersson finds every European willow bar one is also American.
Has heard from David Livingstone and reports on his progress.
Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.
CD’s receipt of diploma from Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Academy [Dresden].
Pleased with JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Confident of soundness of principle of divergence.
CD experimenting on pollination mechanism of Leguminosae. Asks JDH to investigate Fumariaceae.
Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.
Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]
Thanks for queen-bee larva and pupa.
Nervous system of Coccus.
Discusses geometry related to the structure of bees’ cells. Encloses notes and diagrams dealing with intersections of spheres.