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From:
Thomas White Woodbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9–22 Oct 1861]
Source of text:
Pinned to CD’s unbound copy of Journal of Horticulture , 8 October 1861, p. 38 (Darwin Library–CUL)
Summary:

Fancies articles on "The queen bee" and "Drone influence" [J. Hortic. 8 October 1861, p. 39] may be of interest. Since writing the latter, one of his drones hybridised a queen at a distance of a mile and a half.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas White Woodbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:

Breeding cells of Ligurian bee are larger than those of common bee. Thanks CD for comb.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas White Woodbury
Date:
7 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 374
Summary:

Cannot aid TWW with respect to bees from East Indies. Suggests he write to Edward Blyth.

Thanks him for getting query on variation in bees circulated in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas White Woodbury
Date:
15 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
B. Altman & Co. ( New York Times , 12 October 1975, p. 39)
Summary:

TWW should look at bee and comb specimens received by CD from Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas White Woodbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 181: 150
Summary:

Bee species of different sizes build cells the same size.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas White Woodbury
Date:
[after 17 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
International Bee Research Association, Eva Crane Library
Summary:

Thanks for the artificial comb.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project