From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
27 [June 1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 115)
Summary:
Profoundly sorry for Lane.
Thanks WDF for facts about call ducks, pigs, and Leicester sheep.
Has been observing and experimenting on the construction of bees’ cells. Thinks he has a theory which simplifies the problem.
Scarlet fever in family; nurse ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project