From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[3 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 25
Summary:
Discusses bees’ cells
and WED’s botanical interests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 May [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 234
Summary:
Sends MS on large and small genera.
Observed slave-making ants at Moor Park.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
8 May [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 113)
Summary:
Will be most curious to hear results of WDF’s experiment with a kite and turkey chicks "by themselves".
If WDF ever sees a striped dun horse, he should ascertain colour of dam and sire.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
9 May [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Inquires about the structure and formation of bees’ comb; is interested in seeing its form at the commencement of building.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 [May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 26
Summary:
Relates events at home;
hopes WED gets the scholarship.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 May [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 235
Summary:
Arranges meeting with JDH at Thatched House Tavern.
Eager for JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
18 May [1858]
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 255
Summary:
CD’s health has been poor owing to hard work [on Natural selection]. He has to treat of every branch of natural history, which is beyond his strength.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 233
Summary:
Arrangements for JDH to visit Down for weekend.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 27
Summary:
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?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
