From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 103
Summary:
List of close species taken from AG’s Manual of botany [1848].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Apr [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 231
Summary:
Asa Gray’s criticism of Buckle and his comments on large and small genera.
CD suspects glacial epoch immensely long. Rates of organic change too variable to make them a good measure of geological time.
Bees’ cells are a difficulty for theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
[15 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 24a
Summary:
A set of questions CD prepared for his meeting with WHM to discuss the geometry of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1858
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:
Bees’ cells; GRW thinks hexagonal shape is accidental. Encloses notes on cells of Icaria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 45: 20–4
Summary:
[Copy of some rough notes.] References about species. Variations within species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Philpott
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 April 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 261
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 April 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 312
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Evans
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 April 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 141
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 33
Summary:
Concerned about ED’s headaches, CD writes an affectionate letter.
Believes he has found a rare slave-making species of ant.
Is reading novels: Beneath the surface and Three chances.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 24
Summary:
Has been at Moor Park since Tuesday. Is passing his time watching ants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 232
Summary:
Confidential revelation concerning W. F. Daniell.
Georg Hartung confirms CD’s supposition from flora of Azores that icebergs had been stranded there.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[28 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 34
Summary:
CD recounts an idyllic stroll and nap – "as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 April 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 313
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project