To W. B. Tegetmeier 17 [October 1858]
Summary
Has read WBT’s interesting communication on bees’ cells [Athenæum 16 Oct 1858]. Would like to see his excavated cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 17 [Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2344 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … s interesting communication on bees’ cells [ Athenæum 16 Oct 1858]. Would like to see his …
- … CD’s reference to having read a report about Tegetmeier’s work in the Athenæum (see n. …
- … 2, below). The Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p. 492, carried a report of papers given in …
- … s paper ( Tegetmeier 1858b ). There is a copy of the Athenæum account in DAR 48 (ser. 2): …
- … 47. According to the notice in the Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p. 492, Tegetmeier …
- … communication on Bee’s cell in the Athenæum. — You refer to me in very flattering …
To George Bentham 27 January [1858]
Summary
Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 27 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13778 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker. …
- … Dalton Hooker had been a member of the Athenæum Club since 1851 ( Correspondence vol. 3, …
- … dear Sir Do you ever attend elections at Athenæum? If you are there on Monday next, will …
- … Henry Lardner Woodd elected to the Athenæum Club (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to …
- … George Bentham had been a member of the Athenæum Club since 1830 (Waugh 1888). Woodd was a …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 October [1858]
Summary
Ask some questions on pigeons.
Remarks on the discussion of bees’ cells at the Leeds BAAS meeting. CD fancies he has the true theory with regard to their construction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2332 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … but no doubt there will be abstract in Athenæum, & your paper in full somewhere, which I …
- … described some of CD’s experiments ( Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p. 492). In his paper, …
- … that were inclined at 120 o angles (see Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p. 492). The meeting …
- … Tibbats Stainton , not to Whewell. The Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p. 492, also carried …
To W. D. Fox 31 January [1858]
Summary
Thanks WDF for information on blackbirds’ nests [see Natural selection, p. 505].
Problem of choosing from among the load of curious facts for chapter on "Instinct" [Natural selection, ch. 10; Origin, ch. 7] perplexes him.
Asks about behaviour of chicks in danger and whether crossed animals are wilder than either parent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 109) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2208 |
To Leonard Jenyns 9 April [1858]
Summary
Asks LJ to lend him a copy of his paper ["Variation of species", Rep. BAAS 26 (1856): 101–5] and any notes or references he has. Although CD has a large accumulation of facts, it is impossible to see and consider too many.
His health is poor.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2253 |
To Henry Norton Shaw, Royal Geographical Society 16 April [1858]
Summary
Is much obliged and honoured by the Diploma of the Geographical Society of Vienna.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Norton Shaw |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2257 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … London yesterday & only then found at the Athenæum Club, your note with the Diploma of the …
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1858
Summary
Would appreciate loan of CD’s chapter on transmigration across tropics, which may help with the difficulties of Australian distribution.
Still regards plant types as older than animal types.
The Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of Abyssinia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 128–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2382 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the Royal Society on 30 November 1858 ( Athenæum , 4 December 1858, p. 723). Hooker, as …
To T. H. Huxley 1 December [1858]
Summary
Has had some misgivings about the memorial but now thinks his fears were vain and cowardly. Regrets R. I. Murchison was not told in advance. His low opinion of the Government and B. Disraeli.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1858] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 250) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2376 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 27 November 1858, p. 861, and in the Athenæum , 27 November 1858, pp. 684–5. Since then, …
To W. D. Fox 22 February [1858]
Summary
Thanks for Hewitson [British oology].
Has found more variability in birds’ nests than he expected.
Interested in WDF’s note about turkey terrified by a frog [see Natural selection, p. 488 n.].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 111) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2219 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … last week & got Hewitson all safe at Athenæum Club. It is indeed magnificently bound & I …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 [June 1858]
Summary
Discusses bees’ cells. Wants hive and swarm; would be glad to have WBT’s box with commenced cells. "I am partly a disciple of Waterhouse, but not wholly."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 8 [June 1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2281 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … A report of the paper was printed in the Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p. 492. CD’s copy of …
To J. D. Hooker 2 November [1858]
Summary
On moving the natural history collection of the British Museum to Kensington.
Subscription for John Ralfs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2351 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Baron Overstone, were members of the Athenæum Club (see Correspondence vol. 6, letters to …
To the Chancellor of the Exchequer 18 November 1858
Summary
CD and eight zoologists and botanists publish a memorial on "the arrangements by which National Collections in Natural History can be best adapted to the advancement of science and its general diffusion among the Public".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1858 |
| Classmark: | Parliamentary Accounts and Papers, Finance; banking; revenue, &c., Session 3 December 1857–2 August 1858, 33: 499–503; Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 27 November 1858, p. 861 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2365 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 27 November 1858, p. 861, and in the Athenæum , 27 November 1858, pp. 684--5. The text of …
| letter | (12) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
