From John Lubbock [after 28 April 1860?]
Summary
Gives CD references to papers on eyes of lower animals.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Apr 1860?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 48: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2394 |
From William Masters [after 7 April 1860]
Summary
Facts and inferences relating to different varieties of sweetpeas.
| Author: | William Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 7 Apr 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 39–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2622 |
From Frederick Smith 3 April 1860
Summary
Has studied CD’s Jamaican hive-bees and finds them identical to Apis mellifica.
Discusses the structure of wasps’ and bees’ nests
and the occurrence of winged and apterous individuals within some insect genera and species.
| Author: | Frederick Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2744 |
From J. S. Henslow 7 April 1860
Summary
Sketch and description of a [wasp’s] nest from Cuba. [Notes by CD on wasps’ nests and comb-building habits of hive-bees.]
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.1:180 [diagram here] |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2750 |
From Thomas Stewardson 16 April 1860
Summary
CD elected correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
| Author: | Thomas Stewardson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 229: 3, 230: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2761A |
From J. D. Hooker [20 April 1860]
Summary
CD’s observations on curved styles read well. JDH seeks morphological rationale of curvature in the position of nectaries.
He has avoided lecturing to Royal Family’s children at Buckingham Palace.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Apr 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 139–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2764 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 April 1860]
Summary
Has examined Leschenaultia and concludes the external viscid surfaces have nothing to do with the stigmatic surface. Agrees with CD’s style and nectary conclusions; accounts for their form and position in irregular flowers by describing floral development.
[Enclosed are some queries by CD with answers by JDH. Gives information on seed setting by Mucuna
and an opinion on the abruptness of N. and S. limits of plant ranges.]
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 150–1, DAR 166.2: 262 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2774 |
| letter | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Masters, William | (1) |
| Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Masters, William | (1) |
| Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
| Stewardson, Thomas | (1) |
