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To John Lubbock 30 [March? 1858]

Summary

Comments and criticisms on JL’s paper [possibly: "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:	30 [Mar? 1858]
Classmark:	DAR 263: 23 (EH 88206472)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2397

Matches: 10 hits

… To John Lubbock 30 [March? 1858] …
… Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 [Mar? 1858] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
… insufficient hypothesis (see T. H. Huxley 1858 , p. 215). This sentence does not appear …
… in the published version. T. H. Huxley 1858 , pp. 228–34. …
… official referee’s report on T. H. Huxley 1858 (see preceding letter). Lubbock’s note to …
… see letter from John Lubbock, 10 June 1858 ) and may have told Huxley that he had seen …
… was given at length in T. H. Huxley 1858 , pp. 212–18. Huxley had previously criticised …
… bodies in Coccus . There is a note to this effect in T. H. Huxley 1858 ,p. 205. …
… In a concluding note dated 16 November 1858, Huxley mentioned Lubbock’s observations of …
… several other insect families ( T. H. Huxley 1858 , pp. 233–4). CD’s letter has not been …

To W. E. Darwin 14 [May 1858]

Summary

Relates events at home;

hopes WED gets the scholarship.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	14 [May 1858]
Classmark:	DAR 210.6: 26
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2273

Matches: 10 hits

… To W. E. Darwin 14 [May 1858] …
… DAR 210.6: 26 Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 [May 1858] William Erasmus Darwin …
… Wilson , was paid £50 on 13 September 1858; the full quarter rate had been £52 10 s . ( …
… to the Cambridge University calendar for 1858, William won a scholarship to Christ’s …
… College. See letter to W. E. Darwin, [3 May 1858] . …
… to London (see n. 3, below). However, 14 May 1858 was a Friday, not a Saturday. Since the …
… Emma Darwin’s diary, ‘Etty went to Mr Bell’ on 14 May 1858. Susan Elizabeth Darwin , CD’ …
… over his theory ( letter to W. E. Darwin, [26 May 1858] ). William’s tutor, William …
… s sister, arrived at Down House on 17 May 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Robert Ainslie , of …
… letter to William written early in October 1858 (DAR 210.6), mentioned Ainslie’s departure …

From J. D. Hooker [20 November 1858]

Summary

At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.

Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[20 Nov 1858]
Classmark:	DAR 50: E1–2
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2367

Matches: 8 hits

… From J. D. Hooker [20 November 1858] …
… DAR 50: E1–2 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [20 Nov 1858] Charles Robert Darwin …
… CD’s reply (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 November 1858] ). Hooker 1859 . See letter to …
… J. D. Hooker, 14 November [1858] . The list may be DAR 50: E65. Letter from W. …
… de Vriese to J. D. Hooker, 21 September 1858. In his letter, Vriese had failed to answer …
… Charles Lyell (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 9[–10] November [1858] , and letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 12 November 1858 ). See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 14 November [1858] . …

To W. E. Darwin 22 [September 1858]

Summary

Discusses domestic affairs.

Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].

Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	22 [Sept 1858]
Classmark:	DAR 210.6: 29
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2328

Matches: 11 hits

… To W. E. Darwin 22 [September 1858] …
… DAR 210.6: 29 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 [Sept 1858] William Erasmus Darwin …
… 1857] . See letter to W. E. Darwin, [26 May 1858] . For CD’s researches into the means of …
… are given in Origin , pp. 356–65. See also letter to T. C. Eyton, 11 October [1858] . …
… recorded a payment of £31 10 s . on 21 August 1858 in his Account book (Down House MS) for …
… Eltham. Samuel Jones entered CD’s employ in 1858 in connection with caring for the horses: …
… several entries in CD’s Account book (Down House MS) in 1858 and 1859 for wages paid to …
… Jones. In 1858 a ‘tram’ was a small cart or barrow on which coal was transported: ‘a …
… 10. Elizabeth Darwin , aged 11. On 19 September 1858, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary: ‘ …
… s College, Cambridge. On 8 September 1858, he left Down for the village of Forncett, …
… diary). CD paid £11 10 s . on 10 October 1858 for ‘plate for William’ (CD’s Account book ( …

To Trenham Reeks? 13 August [1858]

Summary

Has been asked to set a price on slate relief slabs [see 2236]. Would appreciate advice from correspondent as he would like to buy pictures with the money.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Trenham Reeks
Date:	13 Aug [1858]
Classmark:	British Geological Survey Archives (GSM 1/501)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2323

Matches: 8 hits

… To Trenham Reeks? 13 August [1858] …
… Survey Archives (GSM 1/501) Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Aug [1858] Trenham Reeks …
… is given by CD’s payment of £5 to Burn on 28 December 1858 (see n. 1, above). Samuel Luke …
… at 47 Bond Street, London ( Post Office London directory 1858). For CD’s wish to sell the …
… reliefs, see letter to Trenham Reeks? , 10 March [1858] . …
… to the letter to Trenham Reeks? , 10 March [1858] . There is no record of who might have …
… book (Down House MS) dated 28 August 1858 indicates that he received £150 for them. …
… entries in CD’s Account book on 28 December 1858 and 6 January 1859 for £5 and £2 10 s . …

To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1858]

Summary

CD declines to write Lyell éloge [for Copley Medal] because of his ill health.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	[23 Nov 1858]
Classmark:	DAR 114: 251
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2369

Matches: 7 hits

… To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1858] …
… DAR 114: 251 Charles Robert Darwin Down [23 Nov 1858] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… see letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 13 November 1858]). He had visited Moor …
… hydropathic establishment from 25 October to 1 November 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1858] . Emma Darwin’s diary records that …
… Down on 25 November and left on 27 November 1858. The citation for the award of the Royal …
… of the secretary by Tuesday, 30 November 1858, the day of the anniversary meeting. CD …

Grönland, Johannes. 1858. Notice nécrologique sur M. Neumann. Revue Horticole (1858): 622–4.

Matches: 2 hits

… Grönland, Johannes. 1858. Notice nécrologique sur M. …
… Neumann. Revue Horticole (1858): 622–4. Dar Proj - research files 10 …

Venables, Richard (1755–1858)

Matches: 1 hit

… Richard Venables 1755–1858 Clergyman. …

From J. D. Hooker [25] February 1858

Summary

Botanical practice can confuse CD’s compilations. Many small genera would have been species had the whole natural order [family] been known.

JDH’s low opinion of Buckle;

high opinion of Mrs Farrer.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[25] Feb 1858
Classmark:	DAR 100: 115a–d
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2225

Matches: 9 hits

… From J. D. Hooker [25] February 1858 …
… DAR 100: 115a–d Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [25] Feb 1858 Charles Robert Darwin …
… D. Hooker, 23 February [1858] ). The number of CD’s portfolio of notes on classification. …
… but Thursday was actually 25 February 1858. CD had asked to borrow volumes of Candolle and …
… Candolle 1824–73 from Hooker (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1858] and …
… 23 February [1858] ). See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 23 February [1858] . No correspondence with Andrew Sinclair has …
… been found, but see the letter from William Swale, 13 July 1858 . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 23 February [1858] . Frances and Thomas Henry Farrer (see letter to J. …

From G. R. Waterhouse 17 April 1858

Summary

Bees’ cells; GRW thinks hexagonal shape is accidental. Encloses notes on cells of Icaria.

Author:	George Robert Waterhouse
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	17 Apr 1858
Classmark:	DAR 181
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2258

Matches: 11 hits

… From G. R. Waterhouse 17 April 1858 …
… DAR 181 George Robert Waterhouse British Museum 17 Apr 1858 Charles Robert Darwin …
… of the Entomological Societyon 5 April 1858 ( Transactions of the Entomological Society of …
… London n.s. 5 (1858–61), Proceedings , pp. 17–18). William Bernhard Tegetmeier had …
… new beehive at the same meeting (see letters to W. B. Tegetemeier, 14 April [1858] and [ …
… 21 April 1858]). See also letter from G. …
… R. Waterhouse, 13 February 1858 . See letter from G. …
… letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 13 February 1858 . The contents indicate that Waterhouse …
… letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 13 February 1858 ) and goes into much greater detail than …
… British Museum April 17. 1858 My dear Darwin Having been “drawn out” at the last meeting …
… R. Waterhouse, 13 February 1858 , in which Waterhouse explained how his theory of the …

To W. B. Tegetmeier 9 May [1858]

Summary

Inquires about the structure and formation of bees’ comb; is interested in seeing its form at the commencement of building.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:	9 May [1858]
Classmark:	Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2271

Matches: 9 hits

… To W. B. Tegetmeier 9 May [1858] …
… Finney Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 May [1858] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
… the relationship to the letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [21 April 1858] . See letters to W. …
… B. Tegetmeier, 14 April [1858] and [ …
… 21 April 1858] . CD refers to the eggs of the owl-pigeon. Probably Tegetmeier 1858a . …
… See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [21 April 1858] and n. 6. …
… beehive, described in Cottage Gardener , 20 (1858): 59, was partly devised to ‘permit any …
… are not perfectly angular . [ added ]’. See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [21 April 1858] . …
… See also letter to W. E. Darwin, [26 May 1858] . CD apparently intended to write ‘on one’ …

To W. D. Fox 16 April [1858]

Summary

Asks WDF for facts about stripes in horses and ponies.

Health has been very bad.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Darwin Fox
Date:	16 Apr [1858]
Classmark:	Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 112a)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2256

Matches: 9 hits

… To W. D. Fox 16 April [1858] …
… Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 112a) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Apr [1858] William Darwin Fox …
… was a neighbour and friend of Fox’s. See letters to W. E. Darwin, 11 [February 1858] and …
… 27 [February 1858] . CD had included a long discussion of the aboriginal markings of …
… a copy of Hewitson 1831–44 from Fox (see letters to W. D. Fox, 14 January [1858] , 31 …
… January [1858] , and …
… 22 February [1858] ). He had made a day trip to London on 15 April (see …
… CD left for Moor Park hydropathic establishment on 20 April 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). …
… big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge …

From Henry Coe 18 September 1858

Summary

Cannot explain impurity of his alleged pure lines.

Author:	Henry Coe
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	18 Sept 1858
Classmark:	DAR 161: 194
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2326

Matches: 8 hits

… From Henry Coe 18 September 1858 …
… DAR 161: 194 Henry Coe Knowle Asylum, Hampshire 18 Sept 1858 Charles Robert Darwin …
… see letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 13 November 1858]). The paper was …
… Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 (1858): 459–65. See also Collected papers 2: 19– …
… N r . Fareham. Hants. 18 th Sept r . 1858. — Sir, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your …
… and 14 November 1857 ), some of which CD sowed in 1858, finding that the resulting plants …
… to Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 13 November 1858]; Collected papers 2: 23). Packets of the …
… published in Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 13 November 1858, p. 829 ( …

To J. D. Hooker 20 [October 1858]

Summary

Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers [Collected papers 2: 19–25].

JDH’s reactions to CD’s theory.

Discussed human fossil evidence with Hugh Falconer.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	20 [Oct 1858]
Classmark:	DAR 114: 250
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2345

Matches: 10 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 20 [October 1858] …
… DAR 114: 250 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 [Oct 1858] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… Letter from Charles Moore, 11 August 1858 . The letter and the list are in DAR 171.2: 232. …
… University Press. 1985–. Moore, Charles. 1858. On Triassic beds near Frome, and their …
… CD went to Moor Park on 25 October 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 12 [October 1858] . See …
… to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 13 November 1858]. John Lindley was the editor of the …
… See letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [October 1858] . See also Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
… s remark. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1858] . The find was reported in …
… a note appended to C. Moore 1858 , p. 94: ‘Since reading the above paper, it has been …

From William Allport Leighton 19 November 1858

Summary

Sends an account of different colours and shapes of seeds raised from ordinary seeds of scarlet runner. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 151.]

Author:	William Allport Leighton
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	19 Nov 1858
Classmark:	DAR 77: 149–51
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2366

Matches: 6 hits

… Herefordshire and Shropshire 1856). See letter to W. A. Leighton, 21 November [1858] . …
… From William Allport Leighton 19 November 1858 …
… DAR 77: 149–51 William Allport Leighton Shrewsbury 19 Nov 1858 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Luciefelde | Shrewsbury Nov r . 19. 1858 My dear Sir, The perusal of your Paper in the …
… of publication in mind. See letter to W. A. Leighton, 21 November [1858] . See …
… to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 13 November 1858]. Henry J. Oldroyd, nurseryman and …

To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1858]

Summary

Hermaphrodite trees are enough to "knock" CD down. Can JDH observe Eucalyptus to see whether pollen and stigma mature at same time?

JDH’s facts showing European plants are more common in southern Australia than in South America are disturbing because they are improbable on CD’s views of migration.

JDH said he would give examples of Australian forms that have migrated north along the mountains of the Malay Archipelago.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	14 Nov [1858]
Classmark:	DAR 114: 254
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2361

Matches: 11 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1858] …
… DAR 114: 254 Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Nov [1858] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1858 . The concluding paragraph was written on …
… Charles Lyell . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 9[–10] November [1858] , and letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 12 November 1858 . CD refers to the subscription organised by Hooker for John …
… big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1858 . CD cited Thomas Vernon Wollaston on this …
… refers to Wollaston 1856 . By 14 November 1858, CD had written the first seven chapters of …
… Letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1858 . The lists have not been located in the …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1858 . In Natural selection , p. 47, CD stated, on …
… memorandum to J. D. Hooker, [14 November 1858] . In Hooker 1859 , p. xviii, Hooker stated …

To W. D. Fox 8 May [1858]

Summary

Will be most curious to hear results of WDF’s experiment with a kite and turkey chicks "by themselves".

If WDF ever sees a striped dun horse, he should ascertain colour of dam and sire.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Darwin Fox
Date:	8 May [1858]
Classmark:	Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 113)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2270

Matches: 7 hits

… To W. D. Fox 8 May [1858] …
… Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 113) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 May [1858] William Darwin Fox …
… crest) and giving Fox as the source. See letters to W. D. Fox, 31 January [1858] , 22 …
… February [1858] , and …
… 28 February [1858] . See letter to W. …
… D. Fox, 16 April [1858] . …
… 1849] and 7 [July 1849] ). On 27 April 1858, Fox recorded in his diary: ‘Went to Moor Park …

To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1858]

Summary

Abstract growing to inordinate length.

Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	6 Oct [1858]
Classmark:	DAR 114: 248
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2335

Matches: 11 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1858] …
… DAR 114: 248 Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Oct [1858] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… Advancement of Science in September 1858 by William Pengelly , director of excavations ( …
… big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge …
… librarian at the Linnean Society until 1858, and at the end of the year Thomas West was …
… Henry Harvey had visited Down from 28 to 31 August 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Elizabeth …
… had been unwell during August and September 1858. For CD’s previous fears about Leonard’s …
… issued in parts in the Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 19 June 1858, pp. …
… 493–4; 18 September 1858, p. …
… 701; and 2 October 1858, pp. 732–3. CD cited Hooker on this point in Natural selection , …
… Society in May, June, and September 1858 ( Bonney 1919 , pp. 140–2). Flint implements …

To Skeffington Poole 22 October [1858]

Summary

Asks supplementary questions about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Skeffington Poole
Date:	22 Oct [1858]
Classmark:	Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions (dealer) (no date)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2346H

Matches: 9 hits

… To Skeffington Poole 22 October [1858] …
… 1st Editions (dealer) (no date) Charles Robert Darwin 22 Oct [1858] Down Skeffington Poole …
… 9). See this volume, Supplement, letter to Skeffington Poole, 20 October [1858] and n. 4. …
… and the letter to Skeffington Poole, 20 October [1858] (this volume, Supplement). See …
… this volume, Supplement, letter from Skeffington Poole, [21 October 1858] . See this …
… volume, Supplement, letter to Skeffington Poole, 20 October [1858] , and letter from …
… Skeffington Poole, [21 October 1858] . CD cited Skeffington Poole by name in Origin , …
… letter from Skeffington Poole, [21 October 1858] and n. 4. See Origin , p. 164, and …
… 7, letter to W. E. Darwin, [26 May 1858] and n. 9. CD was interested in collecting …

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There are two extant versions of the abstract of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. One was sent to Asa Gray on 5 September 1857, enclosed with a letter of the same date (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] and enclosure).…

Matches: 11 hits

… sent to Charles Lyell and Joseph Dalton Hooker in June 1858 as part of Darwin’s contribution to the …
… manuscript and the printed text of Darwin and Wallace 1858 have been noted. For CD’s work on the …
… dated Down, September 5th, 1857.” (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 50). The text comprises the second …
… printed version reads: ‘astounded’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 50). 3 The printed version …
… carpets, of another for cloth, &c.’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 51). 10 The printed …
… external appearances, but who could’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 51). 11 The manuscript …
… should go on selecting for one object’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 51). 13 The printed …
… few years, or at most a few centuries’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 51). 17 At this point in …
… not hold the progeny of one pair’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 51). 18 The printed version …
… printed version reads: ‘far more’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 52). 21 The printed version …
… by struggling with other organisms’ (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 52). 22 The printed version …

The writing of "Origin"

Summary

From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…

Matches: 19 hits

… Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ) The year 1858 opened with Darwin hard at work …
… on hybridism, on 29 December 1857, Darwin began in January 1858 to prepare the next chapter, ‘Mental …
… facts on record.—’ (letter to W. D. Fox, 31 January [1858] ). In addition to behaviour such as …
… occurred in nature (see letter to Asa Gray, 4 April [1858] , and Natural selection , p. 161). …
… you have seen,’ he told Hooker in his letter of 8 [June 1858] , ‘yet I have been forced to …
… much of his research completed, Darwin began in mid-June 1858 to write up the results of his study …
… of my Chapters.’ (letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [June 1858] ). As was his custom, Darwin did …
… endorsement, the editors have dated the letter 18 [June 1858]. However, the accuracy of Darwin’s …
… Darwin received Wallace’s letter and manuscript on 3 June 1858, the same day that another letter …
… 2). The correspondence between mid-May and mid-June 1858 provides some circumstantial …
… of anxiety. He says in a letter to Syms Covington, 18 May [1858] , that he expects the …
… full well you will be dreadfully severe.—’ On 18 [May 1858] , he again tells Hooker: ‘There is …
… the Darwin–Wallace papers at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. It also includes an unpublished …
… days immediately following his letter to Lyell. On 18 June 1858, his eldest daughter, Henrietta Emma …
… did not attend the meeting of the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. After the theory of natural …
… a ‘small volume’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October [1858] ). Begun while he was in Sandown on …
… detailed sections for his ‘big book’. In September 1858 he finished his manuscript discussion of …
… experiments on bees’ cells continued through the autumn of 1858, even though he had completed a …
… of publishing (see ‘Journal’; Appendix II). Twice in 1858 and three times in 1859 he had gone to …

The evolution of honeycomb

Summary

Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…

Matches: 14 hits

… of reaching.’ (Letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 10 February 1858 .) By now not only …
… together. (Letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 13 February 1858 .) In April 1858, Darwin went to …
… discussion in a memorandum to W. H. Miller, [15 April 1858] , summarising his position as follows …
… by other cells (letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 17 April 1858 ). Waterhouse also told Darwin …
… piece of honeycomb (letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [21 April 1858] ); however, it had been mislaid. …
… beginnings of the comb (letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 9 May [1858] ). He suspected that the first …
… manner of building’ (letter to W. E. Darwin, [26 May 1858] .) To Tegetmeier, he explained in more …
… cylindrical cells (letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 5 June [1858] ). Tegetmeier suggested putting a …
… and buying a swarm (letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 8 [June 1858] ). (Articial wax is probably …
… result is shown in the photograph below. In August 1858, Waterhouse’s remarks at the 5 April …
… At a meeting of the Entomological Society on 7 July 1858 ( Proceedings of the Entomological Society …
… latest controversies in his letter to Darwin of 2 August 1858 . The notion that the theory of …
… with the least possible expenditure of wax, but in September 1858 Tegetmeier was able to give Darwin …
… of cells. (Letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 8 September [1858] .) In Origin , in November …

Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin

Summary

The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…

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… The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From …
… of organic change at the Linnean Society of London in July 1858 and prompted the composition and …
… from these years. The 'big book' The year 1858 opened with Darwin hard at …
… on hybridism, on 29 December 1857, Darwin began in January 1858 to prepare the next chapter, ‘Mental …
… facts on record.—’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 31 January [1858] ). In addition to behaviour such as …
… occurred in nature ( see letter to Asa Gray, 4 April [1858] , and Natural selection , p. 161). …
… you have seen,’ he told Hooker in his letter of 8 [June 1858] , ‘yet I have been forced to …
… best.—’ Other topics discussed in the letters of 1858 also relate to questions that Darwin …
… much of his research completed, Darwin began in mid-June 1858 to write up the results of his study …
… of my Chapters.’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [June 1858] ). As was his custom, Darwin did …
… endorsement, the editors have dated the letter 18 [June 1858]. However, the accuracy of Darwin’s …
… Darwin received Wallace’s letter and manuscript on 3 June 1858, the same day that another letter …
… 2). The correspondence between mid-May and mid-June 1858 provides some circumstantial …
… of anxiety. He says in a letter to Syms Covington, 18 May [1858], that he expects the publication of …
… full well you will be dreadfully severe.—’ On 18 [May 1858], he again tells Hooker: ‘There is not …
… the Darwin–Wallace papers at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858, including a letter from Wallace to …
… days immediately following his letter to Lyell. On 18 June 1858, his eldest daughter, Henrietta Emma …
… did not attend the meeting of the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. The writing of Origin …
… a ‘small volume’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October [1858] ). Begun while he was in Sandown on …
… detailed sections for his ‘big book’. In September 1858 he finished his manuscript discussion of …
… experiments on bees’ cells continued through the autumn of 1858, even though he had completed a …
… the most difficult challenge to his views. In November 1858, he communicated a long summary of his …
… letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle, [before 13 November 1858] ), in which he presented the evidence for …
… of publishing (see ‘Journal’; Appendix II). Twice in 1858 and three times in 1859 he had gone to …
… we run two horses’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 6 October [1858] ). Visitors to Down and trips to …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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… on the structure of bees’ cells, [before 8 June 1858] , and their geometry, [19 June 1858] . …

Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species

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Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…

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… manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by June 1858. At that point Darwin was …
… theory of transmutation ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [June 1858] ). Darwin recorded in his …
… 10 9 March 1858 Mental powers and the instincts of …
… [4] 12 June 1858 [3] [Discussion on large genera and …
… [6] 12 June 1858 [Correcting chapter 6] (DAR 10.2: 26a- …
… intended to be added to chapter 4 was completed on 14 April 1858. Stauffer considers the alterations …

Instinct and the Evolution of Mind

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Slave-making ants For Darwin, slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how instinct operates—how…

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… Letter 2226 —Frederick Smith to Darwin, 26 Feb 1858 In this letter, Smith, a prominent …
… Letter 2235 —Darwin to Frederick Smith, [before 9 Mar 1858] This letter contains a list of …
… Letter 2413 —Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin, [25 Apr 1858] Written from Moor Park, a …
… 2265 —Charles Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [26 Apr 1858] Writing to his eldest son, …
… Letter 2306 —Charles Darwin to Joseph Hooker, 13 [July 1858] In this famous letter to …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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… and gratefully Charles Darwin. CREED AND FEVER: 1858 In which Gray expresses his …
… Origin of Species…’ FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: 1857-1858 In which Gray and Hooker begin …
… 1856 24 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 13 JULY 1858 25 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, …
… OF COMMON PRAYER 47 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 4 JULY 1858 48 C DARWIN TO LYELL …

Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties

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The original manuscript about varieties that Wallace composed on the island of Gilolo and sent to Darwin from the neighbouring island of Ternate (Brooks 1984) has not been found. It was sent to Darwin as an enclosure in a letter (itself missing), and was…

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… Darwin to Charles Lyell (letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [June 1858] ). The only known version of the …
… below. Wallace’s essay was written in February 1858. He recollected the events surrounding …
… and habits which they exhibit. Ternate, February, 1858. Note 1 In CD’s …

Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions

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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...

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… Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …

Darwin and Fatherhood

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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…

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… driven away grief.’ (Darwin to W. D. Fox, 2 July [1858] ). The death of a baby daughter only a …
… small adventures (Darwin to his son William, [30 October 1858] ). In one letter in 1856, he …

Darwin's health

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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…

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… vol. 7, letter to Robert Monsey Rolfe, 10 November [1858] , and Correspondence vol. 12, …
… Correspondence vol. 7, letter to W. D. Fox, 13 November [1858] ). He first visited the …

Controversy

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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…

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… Letter 2285 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, 18 [June 1858] Darwin writes to Lyell and …
… Letter 2294 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, [25 June 1858] Darwin writes to Lyell saying …
… Letter 2295 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, 26 [June 1858] Darwin writes to Lyell and …
… Hooker, J. D. & Lyell, Charles to Linnean Society, 30 June 1858 Hooker and Lyell write …
… Letter 2306 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 13 [July 1858] Darwin writes to Hooker, saying …
… Letter 2337 — Wallace, A. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct 1858 Darwin thanks Hooker and Lyell for …

Darwin's bad days

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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:

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… Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …

Darwin as mentor

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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…

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… Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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… Letter 2221 - Blyth, E. to Darwin, [22 February 1858] Edward Blyth, curator of the …
… Letter 2345 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [20 October 1858] Darwin describes to Joseph …

Origin

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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…

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… a similar theory by Alfred Russel Wallace in June 1858. In the aftermath of the first public …
… a longer abstract of his species theory . On 5 July 1858, Darwin stated his intention to start work …
… was writing his essay on the flora of Australia in December 1858, he asked to borrow Darwin’s ‘ …
… convert. ’ Making the book By mid-October 1858, Darwin had expected that his abstract …
… was having, and the fulfilment of his stated aim in July 1858 when he began to write his abstract: ‘ …

On the Origin of Species

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… transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected …
… of organic change at the Linnean Society of London in July 1858 and prompted the composition and …

Orchids

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Why Orchids? Darwin wrote in his Autobiography, ‘During the summer of 1839, and, I believe, during the previous summer, I was led to attend to the cross-fertilisation of flowers by the aid of insects, from having come to the conclusion in my…

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… would again bubble to the surface of Darwin’s mind. By 1858, Darwin had examined over a hundred …
… beginning of a period of intense orchid research, but June 1858 brought a letter that changed Darwin …

2.26 Linnean Society medal

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< Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel…

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… event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell …
… of thanks recalled the momentous reading of the papers in 1858, and the stunned or bemused reactions …
… is inscribed round the rim on both sides ‘LINN.SOC.LOND: 1858–1908’. The ‘Objects exhibited in the …

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