To W. B. Tegetmeier 17 [October 1858]1
Down Bromley Kent
17th
My dear Sir
I have just read Report of your interesting communication on Bee’s cell in the Athenæum.—2 You refer to me in very flattering manner.—3 But I write now to earnestly beg you to let me at some time see (specimens shall be returned), whenever hives are taken, any or all of your excavated cells in wax, & cylinders whether or no converted into hexagons. This would be of real use to me.—4
Furthermore pray do not forget at some time (not that you have ever forgotten most kindly to answer all my many & troublesome queries) to enquire about Mr. H. Weirs silver Barb, for this is first case that I have heard of in England of a Barb with any blue.—5
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
I am drawing up short notice for Gardeners’ Chronicle on importance of Bees in the fertilisation of Leguminosæ.—6
Footnotes
Summary
Has read WBT’s interesting communication on bees’ cells [Athenæum 16 Oct 1858]. Would like to see his excavated cells.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2344
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2344,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2344.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7