To Cottage Gardener [after 8 May 1860]
Summary
Inquires whether "a Devonshire Bee-keeper" [T. W. Woodbury] who reported a common drone entering a hive of Ligurian bees [Cottage Gard. 24 (1860): 94] believes, with Andrew Knight, that queen bees are seldom fertilised by their own blood-relations. Asks how far a hive of common bees was from that of the Ligurians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Cottage Gardener |
Date: | [after 8 May 1860] |
Classmark: | Cottage Gardener 24 (1860): 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2777 |
To Charles Lyell 8 [May 1860]
Summary
Did not know about separation between Silurian and Cambrian.
Cannot attend Geological Society meeting.
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] ill.
Sedgwick in his attack at Cambridge Philosophical Society states "there must be [on CD’s theory] large genera not varying".
Discusses migration of plants and animals from Old World to New.
Views of Asa Gray on Aster.
Mentions flora of coal period.
Has been elected to Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2788 |
To Thomas Stewardson 8 May 1860
Summary
Acknowledges his election as Correspondent of Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Stewardson |
Date: | 8 May 1860 |
Classmark: | Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2789 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 May [1860]
Summary
Thanks WBT for observations on colours of newly-hatched pigeons of different breeds. Asks if breeders have noticed any differences in lengths of time eggs were incubated in different breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 8 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale Collection of American Literature: De Forest Family Papers (YCAL MSS 582) Box 2, folder 58, item 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2790 |
To J. S. Henslow 8 May [1860]
Summary
Comments on Richard Owen’s review of the Origin [in Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532]. Considers Owen unfair to CD and most ungenerous toward Hooker.
Expects Sedgwick to be fierce against him. Sedgwick also misrepresented CD in his Spectator review [24 Mar and 7 Apr 1860].
Compares natural selection to the undulatory theory of light as a hypothesis explaining a large number of facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 8 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A67–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2791 |
From William Masters 8 May 1860
Author: | William Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 76 (ser. 2): 166–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2792 |
letter | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Masters, William | (1) |
Cottage Gardener | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Stewardson, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Cottage Gardener | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Masters, William | (1) |