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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May–June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 48: B18
Summary:

Calculations relating to bees’ cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
C. W. Dilke
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 May 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 115
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Philpott
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 May 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 262
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 155
Summary:

Reports that N. J. Andersson finds every European willow bar one is also American.

Has heard from David Livingstone and reports on his progress.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[7 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 19
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Hallowes Miller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 48: B1b
Summary:

[Six fragments, mainly diagrams.] The geometry of bees’ cells.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[20 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 20
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 May 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 287
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow 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?].

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