Text Online
From:
Henry Christy
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 90
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Wollaston Hutton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1860
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 241
Summary:
Reports catching a landrail on board ship.
Encloses drawings of insects caught at sea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 46
Summary:
Lyell and CD would urge JDH to make his essays into a book, but see he has embarked on a huge project with G. Bentham [Genera plantarum, 3 vols. (1862–83)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Prestwich
Date:
12 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 252
Summary:
Asks if JP can send criticism of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
William Clark
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 95
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
14 March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 9537.2.14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 242
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
W. B.. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 76
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Mar 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 47
Summary:
JDH coming to Down. Huxley will be invited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
21 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 149
Summary:
Thanks HGB [for his Morphologische Studien (1858)].
Pleased at quickness of translation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1860
Source of text:
DAR 91: 82
Summary:
W&N have not yet received the German edition of the Origin.
Recommend French–English and French dictionaries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
30 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 284
Summary:
Comments on QdeB’s [Études sur les maladies actuelles du ver à soie (1860)].
Has failed to find French publisher for Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
William B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
31 March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 74
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence 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
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:
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:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1860
Source of text:
DAR 166.1:180 [diagram here]
Summary:
Sketch and description of a [wasp’s] nest from Cuba. [Notes by CD on wasps’ nests and comb-building habits of hive-bees.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 39–40
Summary:
Facts and inferences relating to different varieties of sweetpeas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Marshall
Date:
9 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 336
Summary:
Asks for information about Anacharis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 April 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 243
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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