From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48b
Summary:
Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.
Discusses bees’ cells. Wants hive and swarm; would be glad to have WBT’s box with commenced cells. "I am partly a disciple of Waterhouse, but not wholly."
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.]