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DCP-LETT-2199F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Librarian
Date:
[c. June 1858 or later]
Source of text:
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Autograph Collection, Part 2 (OSB MSS 137) Box 25, folder 1188)
Summary:

Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2279

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 June [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 236
Summary:

CD’s receipt of diploma from Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Academy [Dresden].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 June [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Hopes to begin pigeon MS in a week.

Has lately been working on bees’ cells and wishes very much to examine a cylindrical one.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2278

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

DCP-LETT-2283

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48a, 50
Summary:

Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2282

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 237
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2281

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 [June 1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

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."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2283A

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48c
Summary:

Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2283F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
9 June 1858
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £242 11s. 10d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2284

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1858
Source of text:
DAR 170: 21
Summary:

Thanks for queen-bee larva and pupa.

Nervous system of Coccus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7815

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 194
Summary:

Discusses instinct in ducks and turkeys.

Reports a case of the inheritance of an acquired characteristic in a pig.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2285

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 [June 1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.152)
Summary:

Encloses MS by A. R. Wallace. CD has been forestalled. " . . . if Wallace had my MS sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract!" Wallace does not say if he wishes CD to publish MS, but CD will offer to send it to journal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2287

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 51
Summary:

Discusses geometry related to the structure of bees’ cells. Encloses notes and diagrams dealing with intersections of spheres.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2286

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
19 June [1858]
Source of text:
ML 1: 109–10
Summary:

There is much weight in what RIM says about not breaking up the natural history collection of the British Museum. The botanical collection might be moved to Kew, but CD thinks "it would be the greatest evil which could possibly happen to natural science in this country if the other collections were ever to be removed from the British Museum and Library".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2267

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[20 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 28
Summary:

Relates domestic affairs.

Thinks his bees’ cell theory will hold good.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2288

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1858
Source of text:
DAR 76: B15
Summary:

Self-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.

[CD note on bees’ visiting some members of Fumariaceae.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
22 June [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for hive.

Has started [writing up] pigeons and hopes to have finished with them in a week or two.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2290

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 238
Summary:

Etty [Henrietta Darwin] very ill with diphtheria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 June [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 114)
Summary:

Gives his opinion of the charges against E. W. Lane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
24 [June 1858]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5220/149)
Summary:

Extremely sorry for trouble he has given about his signature.

One child dangerously ill with diphtheria, another with much fever.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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