To J. D. Hooker 3 June [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 June [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2279 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 June [1858]
Summary
Hopes to begin pigeon MS in a week.
Has lately been working on bees’ cells and wishes very much to examine a cylindrical one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 5 June [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2280 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1858]
Summary
Pleased with JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Confident of soundness of principle of divergence.
CD experimenting on pollination mechanism of Leguminosae. Asks JDH to investigate Fumariaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2282 |
From E. A. Darwin [8 June 1858]
Summary
Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 48a, 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2283 |
From E. A. Darwin [after 8 June 1858]
Summary
Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 48c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2283A |
To John Higgins 9 June 1858
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £242 11s. 10d.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 9 June 1858 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2283F |
From John Lubbock 10 June 1858
Summary
Thanks for queen-bee larva and pupa.
Nervous system of Coccus.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2284 |
To Charles Lyell 18 [June 1858]
Summary
Encloses MS by A. R. Wallace. CD has been forestalled. " . . . if Wallace had my MS sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract!" Wallace does not say if he wishes CD to publish MS, but CD will offer to send it to journal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.152) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2285 |
To Roderick Impey Murchison 19 June [1858]
Summary
There is much weight in what RIM says about not breaking up the natural history collection of the British Museum. The botanical collection might be moved to Kew, but CD thinks "it would be the greatest evil which could possibly happen to natural science in this country if the other collections were ever to be removed from the British Museum and Library".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet |
Date: | 19 June [1858] |
Classmark: | ML 1: 109–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2286 |
From E. A. Darwin [19 June 1858]
Summary
Discusses geometry related to the structure of bees’ cells. Encloses notes and diagrams dealing with intersections of spheres.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2287 |
From Asa Gray 21 June 1858
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2288 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 22 June [1858]
Summary
Thanks for hive.
Has started [writing up] pigeons and hopes to have finished with them in a week or two.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 22 June [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2289 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2290 |
To R. I. Murchison 24 [June 1858]
Summary
Extremely sorry for trouble he has given about his signature.
One child dangerously ill with diphtheria, another with much fever.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5220/149) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2292 |
To W. D. Fox 24 June [1858]
Summary
Gives his opinion of the charges against E. W. Lane.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 24 June [1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 114) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2293 |
To Charles Lyell [25 June 1858]
Summary
Everything in Wallace’s sketch also appears in CD’s sketch of 1844. A year ago CD sent a short sketch of his views to Asa Gray. Can CD honourably publish his sketch now that Wallace has sent outline of his views? "I would far rather burn my whole book than that he or any man shd. think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit." Does not believe Wallace originated his views from anything CD wrote to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [25 June 1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.153) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2294 |
To Charles Lyell 26 [June 1858]
Summary
Is it fair to take advantage of knowing that Wallace is in the field? Seems hard on CD to lose priority of many years, but does not feel this alters justice of case.
Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] has much fever. Frightened because three children in village have died from scarlet fever.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 26 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.154) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2295 |
To W. D. Fox 27 [June 1858]
Summary
Profoundly sorry for Lane.
Thanks WDF for facts about call ducks, pigs, and Leicester sheep.
Has been observing and experimenting on the construction of bees’ cells. Thinks he has a theory which simplifies the problem.
Scarlet fever in family; nurse ill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 27 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 115) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2296 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1858]
Summary
Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.
JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2297 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (156) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Darwin, E. A. | (5) |
Coe, Henry | (4) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (52) |
Hooker, J. D. | (44) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (15) |
Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
Fox, W. D. | (12) |
Darwin, C. R. | (208) |
Hooker, J. D. | (55) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (15) |
Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
Fox, W. D. | (13) |