From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Aug–Sept 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 24 (EH 88206473)
Summary:
Variations in the structure of Pelargonium flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1858
Source of text:
DAR 181: 26
Summary:
Bees’ cells; is the hexagonal shape deliberate or merely the result of lateral pressure on cylinders?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
4 Aug [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A53–4
Summary:
CD and his family have come to the seashore, driven from home by scarlet fever at Down, death [of Charles Waring Darwin], and other family illness. Sorry to miss seeing JSH.
Would be grateful to hear his objections to CD’s species speculations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Aug 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 246
Summary:
Working on abstract, which now is to consist of a number of sections each to be read at Linnean Society and to be published as a unit. Has finished section on variation under domestication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Aug 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 245
Summary:
Thanks JDH for stylistic corrections on MS of large and small genera.
Observations, while walking along headlands, on thistle-down blown out to sea and then blown inland.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1858
Source of text:
DAR 171: 232
Summary:
Encloses a list of British perennials which seed in New South Wales and explains the source of his information. Lists plants which have become weeds in the country.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project