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
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 or 15] July 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 116–19, 168
Summary:
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Swale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1858
Source of text:
DAR 177: 323 (fragile), DAR 205.4: 79
Summary:
Discusses the absence of a native bee in New Zealand and the insects which probably performed its fertilising function [see "Agency of bees in fertilization", Collected papers 2: 21]. Describes the success of the naturalised hive-bee and also the rapid spread of introduced members of the Fabaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 122
Summary:
The CD–Wallace paper has gone to press.
JDH’s tabulation of variable species from Bentham was done in haste.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 100: 122
Summary:
References Darwin's after notes about Darwin/Wallace publication on evolution by natural selection.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace 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 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
From:
James Burningham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Sept 1858?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 186 (fragile)
Summary:
Reports his observations on an ants’ nest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 194
Summary:
Cannot explain impurity of his alleged pure lines.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 195
Summary:
Sends more bean seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 196
Summary:
Answers CD’s queries about seed lot he has just sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project