From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Holland
Date:
[Apr 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks for information about birds eating berries of a mountain-ash.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Josiah Parsons Cooke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.364
Summary:
Is grateful for JH's assistance in obtaining back numbers of the publications of the R.A.S. Would like the chance to discuss his chemical experiments before the Royal Institution.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
François Jules Pictet de la Rive
Date:
1 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (MS. fr. 1651, ff. 10–11)
Summary:
Thanks FJP for his review which CD has received and read. There have been many reviews in England opposed to CD but FJP’s is "the single one which seems … perfectly fair & just & candid". The only difference between them is that CD "attaches much more weight to the explanation of facts, & somewhat less weight to the difficulties" than FJP. "I always jump at any theory which groups & explains facts".
Would be proud to send FJP a copy of his Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
1 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 7)
Summary:
Has no drone cells in collection of honeycombs. Discusses construction of cells by bees and ability of bees to judge distances in constructing comb.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
1 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/02)
Summary:
Thanks for information about French dictionaries.
Asks that Westminster Review [of Apr 1860] be sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Nicholson
Date:
2 April 1860
Source of text:
O60/2998, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
2 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A65–6
Summary:
Reminds JSH to send "sketch & account of the wasp’s comb in transitional state from horizontal to vertical, & the country whence procured".
Asks for information on spread of Anacharis [Elodea].
Sedgwick [in criticism of Origin] was not very fair, but Murray says it is splendid for selling copies to "the unfortunate students".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Zerah Colburn
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 April 1860
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (47)
Summary:
Thinks AG’s review [of Origin] will aid much in making people think about subject.
Has been savagely and unfairly reviewed by Adam Sedgwick in the Spectator [24 Mar 1860],
but thinks F. J. Pictet’s review in opposition ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55] a very fair one.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Norman Pogson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.3
Summary:
Thanks JH for supporting his proposed method of designating variable stars, adding that G. B. Airy, J. R. Hind, and W. H. Smyth also accept it. Hopes to succeed M. J. Johnson as director of Oxford's Radcliffe Observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1860
Source of text:
DAR 177 (fragile)
Summary:
Has studied CD’s Jamaican hive-bees and finds them identical to Apis mellifica.
Discusses the structure of wasps’ and bees’ nests
and the occurrence of winged and apterous individuals within some insect genera and species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 76)
Summary:
Has not yet read Huxley’s review of Origin in Westminster Review [Apr 1860].
F. J. Pictet has published an excellent review, though opposed to CD, in Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève [Mar 1860].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
4 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
H. R. Glennie (private collection)
Summary:
Variations in sizes of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
William Keddie
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 April 1860
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.157
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Jules Duboscq
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
5 Avril 1860
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/181, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
6 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 5 (EH 88205922)
Summary:
Comments enthusiastically on WBC’s review ["The theory of development in nature", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 25 (1860): 367–404].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
G D Donati
To:
?
Date:
6 Apr 1860
Source of text:
MSD 3 / 131, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 April 1860
Source of text:
RGO 6/326, f.133-4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Henry S Boase
To:
Benjamin Collins Brodie
Date:
6 April 1860
Source of text:
MM/19/89, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas John Fuller Deacon
Date:
6 April 1860
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project