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To Edward Sabine   23 April [1856]

Summary

CD and Hooker suggest Sir John Richardson for Royal Medal. Other suggestions are George Bentham, Joseph Prestwich, Albany Hancock.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Sabine
Date:  23 Apr [1856]
Classmark:  The Royal Society (Sa: 387)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1858

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From J. D. Hooker   13–15 July 1858

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Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].

JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [13 or 15] July 1858
Classmark:  DAR 100: 116–19, 168
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2307

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  • … From J.  D. Hooker   13–15 July 1858
  • … DAR 100: 116–19, 168 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 13 July 1858 15 …
  • … July 1858 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … The proof-sheets of Darwin and Wallace 1858 have not been located. See Appendix III for …
  • … the changes made by CD. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 5 July [1858] . …
  • … of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could …
  • … He had visited the Darwins at Down, 17–21 June 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See preceding …
  • … letter. Hooker’s tabulation of Bentham 1858  is in DAR 100: 168. It was probably enclosed …
  • … table is discussed by CD in his letter to J.  D. Hooker, 30 [July 1858] . CD had sent his …
  • … on large and small genera to Hooker in May 1858 for his comments (see letters to J.   …
  • … Scrophularineæ Indicæ. London. Bentham, George. 1858. Handbook of the British flora; a …
  • … big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge …
  • … D. Hooker, 6 May [1858] and …
  • … 5 July [1858] ). Hooker’s comments are written on the manuscript and have been transcribed …
  • … the letter to J.  D. Hooker, 10 April [1858] ). This was returned with the manuscript. On …
  • … plants as ‘anomalous families’ ( Bentham 1858 , p.  51). These were the plumbago family ( …
  • … their opinion on the question (see letters to Asa Gray , 21 February [1858] , to C.  C. …
  • … Babington, 22 February [1858], and letter from H.   …
  • … C. Watson, 23 February [1858] ). Weddell 1856 . See letters to …
  • … J.  D. Hooker, 10 [March 1858] and …
  • … 11 March [1858] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, [14 March 1858] . The results of Bentham and Hooker’s work on Indian Astragalus …

From G. R. Waterhouse   2 August 1858

Summary

Bees’ cells; is the hexagonal shape deliberate or merely the result of lateral pressure on cylinders?

Author:  George Robert Waterhouse
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Aug 1858
Classmark:  DAR 181: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2317

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  • … From G.  R. Waterhouse   2 August 1858
  • … DAR 181: 26 George Robert Waterhouse British Museum 2 Aug 1858 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … the Trustees. Brougham, Henry Peter. 1858. Recherches analytiques et expérimentales sur …
  • … British Museum August 2 d . 1858 My dear Darwin Do you see the Zoologist? —in the last …
  • … on bees’ cells were printed in the Zoologist 16 (1858): 6076–77, in a report on a meeting …
  • … of the Entomological Society held on 5 April 1858. See also letter from G.   …
  • … R. Waterhouse, 17 April 1858 . …
  • … The Zoologist 16 (1858): 6185–90 gave an account of the …
  • … of the Entomological Society on5 July 1858 at which William Bernhard Tegetmeier had …
  • … B. Tegetmeier, 8 June [1858] and n.  3. Possibly …
  • … purchased from August Eduard Brückmann in 1858. Brückmann’s collection was drawn from …
  • … of bees’ cells (see letter to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 8 [June 1858] ). Tegetmeier’s report …
  • … the basis of a paper delivered at the 1858 meeting of the British Association for the …
  • … the Entomological Society of London n.s. 5 (1858–61), Proceedings , pp.  34–5. Waterhouse …
  • … of the Entomological Society on 5 April 1858 (see n.  1, above). The printed account of …
  • … At a meeting of the society on 4 October 1858, Smith challenged Waterhouse’s theory on the …
  • … Transactions of the Entomological Society of London n.s. 5 (1858–61), Proceedings , p.   …
  • … 41). Brougham 1858 . See letter to W.   …

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: 12 hits

  • … To W.  B. Tegetmeier   17 [October 1858] …
  • … Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 [Oct 1858] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
  • … on bees’ cells [ Athenæum 16 Oct 1858]. Would like to see his excavated cells. …
  • … hexagons and circles, see letter from E.  A. Darwin, [19 June 1858] . See letter to W.   …
  • … B. Tegetmeier, 2 October [1858] . See …
  • … letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 13 November 1858]. …
  • … n.  2, below). The Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p.  492, carried a report of papers given …
  • … of Science held in Leeds in September 1858, including Tegetmeier’s paper ( Tegetmeier …
  • … to the notice in the Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p.  492, Tegetmeier stated: ‘The mode in …
  • … specimens of Tegetmeier’s cells (see letters to W.  B. Tegetmeier, [21 April 1858] , 9  …
  • … May [1858] , and …
  • … 8 [June 1858] and n.  6). For CD’s calculations on the possible relationship …

To J. D. Hooker   12 [October 1858]

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Abstract will run into a small volume.

Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.

[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  12 [Oct 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 249
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2339

Matches: 14 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   12 [October 1858] …
  • … DAR 114: 249 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 [Oct 1858] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … a pseudonymous romantic novel ( Thurstan 1858 ). CD entered the work in his list of books …
  • … J. , pseud. [Francis Turner Palgrave]. 1858. The passionate pilgrim; or, Eros and Anteros. …
  • … This paper was sent to the Gardeners’ Chronicle in November 1858 (see letter to Gardeners’ …
  • … Chronicle , [before 13 November 1858]). Subsequent correspondence indicates that Hooker …
  • … subtropical Leguminosae. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 20 [October 1858] . See preceding …
  • … letter and letters from Henry Coe , 18  September 1858  and …
  • … 6 October 1858 . CD did not refer to Hooker’s work on Mucuna in his article on the …
  • … of kidney-beans (see letters to J.  D. Hooker, 20 [October 1858] and to Gardeners’ …
  • … Chronicle , [before 13 November 1858]). CD …
  • … refers to offprints of Darwin and Wallace 1858 (see letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, [5 August 1858] ). See letter to T.   …
  • … C. Eyton, 4 October [1858] , in which CD first mentioned the possibility that his ‘ …

To Leonard Jenyns   18 April [1858]

Summary

Thanks LJ for his MS [of "Variation of species", Rep. BAAS 26 (1856): 101–5].

Will read it at his hydropathic establishment [Moor Park], where he is going for a rest.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:  18 Apr [1858]
Classmark:  Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2259

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To Leonard Jenyns   18 April [1858] …
  • … Bibliography Jenyns, Leonard. 1858. Observations in meteorology. London. [vols. 3,7] …
  • … Institution Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Apr [1858] Leonard Jenyns/Leonard Blomefield …
  • … the relationship to the letter to Leonard Jenyns, 9 April [1858] . See preceding letter. …
  • … Park hydropathic establishment on 20 April 1858 and returned to Down on 4 May (‘Journal’; …
  • … Appendix II). See also letter to Leonard Jenyns, [28 April 1858] . …
  • … Jenyns 1858 , a copy of which Jenyns sent to CD. …
  • … See letter to Leonard Jenyns, 1 April [1858] . …

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: 15 hits

  • … To W.  B. Tegetmeier   2 October [1858] …
  • … Finney Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Oct [1858] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
  • … this point in a note dated 26 September 1858 (DAR 48 (ser.  2): 38v. ), which includes the …
  • … Press. 1985–. Ellis, Robert Leslie. 1858. On the cause of the instinctive tendency of bees …
  • … letter to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 8 September [1858] , and by a dated slip in DAR 48 (ser.  2): …
  • … See letter to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 22 June [1858] . Tegetmeier had visited CD in September. …
  • … to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 17 [October 1858] ). The full paper was published in the British …
  • … to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 8 September [1858] . CD believed that the occasional appearance of …
  • … was held in Leeds from 22 to 29 September 1858. John Lubbock had not delivered a paper at …
  • … CD’s experiments ( Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p.  492). In his paper, Tegetmeier referred …
  • … being at first cylindrical ( Tegetmeier 1858b , p.  132). Ellis 1858 . William Whewell …
  • … had read Robert Leslie Ellis’s paper ( Ellis 1858 ) at the meeting. Ellis held that the …
  • … cell walls that were inclined at 120 o angles (see Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p.  492). …
  • … was reported in The Times , 28 September 1858, p.  10. In the notice, Tegetmeier’s paper …
  • … to Whewell. The Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p.  492, also carried an account (see letter …

To W. B. Tegetmeier   8 [June 1858]

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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: 15 hits

  • … To W.  B. Tegetmeier   8 [June 1858] …
  • … Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 [June 1858] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
  • … London: C. Knight. Brougham, Henry Peter. 1858. Recherches analytiques et expérimentales …
  • … big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge …
  • … Dated by the relationship to the letters to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 5 June [1858] and …
  • … 22 June [1858] . See letter to W.   …
  • … B. Tegetmeier, [21 April 1858] . Probably a reference to Lord Brougham. Henry Peter …
  • … letter to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 14 April [1858] . An account of this experiment, performed at …
  • … selection , pp.  468 n.  2 and 513 n.  1. In May 1858, Brougham had read a paper at …
  • … Académie des sciences in Paris ( Brougham 1858 ) in which he again stated his belief that …
  • … design in nature. See also letter to W.  H. Miller, [15 April 1858] , and letter from E.   …
  • … A. Darwin, [19 June 1858] . In Origin , p.  225, CD stated: ‘I was led to investigate this …
  • … s theory, see letter to W.  H. Miller, [15 April 1858] , and Origin , pp.  225–8. …
  • … on the construction of bees’ cells at the 1858 meeting of the British Association for the …
  • … was printed in the Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p.  492. CD’s copy of the report is in DAR …

From Erasmus Alvey Darwin   [May–June 1858]

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Calculations relating to bees’ cells.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [May–June 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 48: B18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2195

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  • … From Erasmus Alvey Darwin   [May–June 1858] …
  • … DAR 48: B18 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated [May–June 1858] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … arranged in a honeycomb pattern. See also letter to W.  H. Miller, [15 April 1858] . …
  • … date the letter more precisely: in May 1858 CD reported that he had ‘settled’ his theory …
  • … see letter to W.  E. Darwin, 14 [May 1858] ); but in June he was still investigating the …
  • … geometry of cells (see letter to W.  E. Darwin, [26 May 1858] , and letters from E.   …
  • … A. Darwin, [before 8 June 1858] , [8  …
  • … June 1858] , [after …
  • … 8 June 1858] , and [ …
  • … 19 June 1858] ). This letter and subsequent letters on the problem show that CD was …

To J. D. Hooker   24–5 November [1858]

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Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.

Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  24–5 Nov [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 255
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2371

Matches: 14 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   24–5 November [1858] …
  • … DAR 114: 255 Charles Robert Darwin Down 24–5 Nov [1858] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … H. de Vriese to J.  D. Hooker, 21  September 1858, was enclosed with the letter from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, [20 November 1858] . …
  • … 1859 ) for his flora of Tasmania (see letters from J.  D. Hooker, 12 November 1858  and [ …
  • … 20 November 1858] ). It is possible that Hooker made this remark in connection with CD’s …
  • … Henslow visited Down from 25 to 27 November 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). The letter from …
  • … letter from J.  D. Hooker, 12 November 1858 and n. 11. Roderick Impey Murchison’s letter …
  • … collections in the British Museum (see letters to R.  I. Murchison, 19 June [1858] and …
  • … 24 [June 1858] , and Appendix VI). CD had signed Murchison’s memorial, but further …
  • … or more large subject-based museums (see letters to T.  H. Huxley, 23 October [1858] and …
  • … 3 November [1858] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 2 November [1858] ). CD refers to the speech to be made at the presentation …
  • … the anniversary meeting on 30 November 1858 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …

To J. D. Hooker   13 [July 1858]

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JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.

Observations on floral structure

and slave-making ants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  13 [July 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 242
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2306

Matches: 15 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   13 [July 1858] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Wedgwood, S. E. (b), Hartfield 13 [July 1858] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Appendix III. See letter from Frederick Smith, 26 February 1858 , and letter to Frederick …
  • … Smith, [before 9 March 1858] . CD’s notes on his observations at Hartfield, dated 11–14  …
  • … Isle of Wight; these notes are in DAR 205.11(2): 94. See letter to Asa Gray, 4 July 1858 . …
  • … Elizabeth) Wedgwood’s home on 9 July 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The letters have not …
  • … in a letter to his mother, dated 6 October 1858 ( Marchant 1916 , 1: 71). An extract from …
  • … Bibliography Bentham, George. 1858. Handbook of the British flora; a description of the …
  • … big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge …
  • … at the Linnean Society meeting on 1 July 1858 were ordered as follows: first, the letter …
  • … Sussex for the Isle of Wight on 16 July 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). Emma Darwin’s diary …
  • … arrived in Sandown on the evening of 17 July. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 5 July [1858] . …
  • … Bentham 1858 . CD was anxious to tabulate the work for his study of varieties in large and …
  • … see letter to J.  D. Hooker,12 January [1858] , n.  10, and Correspondence vol.  6, letter …
  • … read at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858 (see n.  3, above). There were several small …

To J. D. Hooker   5 July [1858]

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Thanks JDH for his report on the reading of the Wallace and Darwin papers at the Linnean Society [read 1 July 1858; Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Considers how to publish his work. Offers to forward a note from JDH to Wallace.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  5 July [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 241
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2303

Matches: 11 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   5 July [1858] …
  • … D. Hooker, 13 [July 1858] . …
  • … DAR 114: 241 Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 July [1858] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … papers at the Linnean Society [read 1 July 1858; Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Considers how …
  • … big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge …
  • … see letter to J.  D. Hooker, 6 May [1858] ). CD’s plans to discuss the manuscript with …
  • … manuscript (DAR 15.1). See letter from J.  D. Hooker, 13–15 July 1858 . See letter to J.   …
  • … Lyell to the Linnean Society, 30 June 1858 . When Francis Darwin later came to compile CD’ …
  • … the meeting at which Darwin and Wallace 1858 was read. He wrote ( LL 2: 126): The interest …
  • … Linnean Society (Darwin and Wallace 1858). Hooker was actively involved with resuscitating …
  • … see letter to J.  D. Hooker, [29 June 1858] ). The Hookers were planning a summer holiday …

To T. H. Huxley   1 December [1858]

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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: 10 hits

  • … To T.  H. Huxley   1 December [1858] …
  • … Benjamin Disraeli was chancellor of the exchequer from February 1858 to June 1859. …
  • … Archives (Huxley 5: 250) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Dec [1858] Thomas Henry Huxley …
  • … signed by CD and others in November 1858 (see n.  4, below). The item enclosed was a …
  • … Murchison . See following letter. See letters to T.  H. Huxley, 23 October [1858] and …
  • … 3 November [1858] , and letters to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 2 November [1858] and …
  • … 27 [November 1858] . The text of the memorial is transcribed in Appendix VI. Murchison, a …
  • … was printed in Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 27 November 1858, p.   …
  • … 861, and in the Athenæum , 27 November 1858, pp.  684–5. Since then, Hooker had met …

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

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To W.  B. Tegetmeier   5 June [1858] …
  • … Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 June [1858] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
  • … Louis Knight Bruce (see letter to W.  E. Darwin, [26 May 1858] ). See letters to W.   …
  • … B. Tegetmeier, [21 April 1858] and …
  • … 9 May [1858] . …
  • … to the letter to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 9 May [1858] . CD had promised to give Tegetmeier his …
  • … writing up the results of his study (see letters to W.  B. Tegetmeier, [21 April 1858] and …
  • … 9 May [1858] ). He began the manuscript later in the month (see letter …
  • … to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 22 June [1858] ). CD refers to the ‘observatory hive’ lent to him by …

To Roderick Impey Murchison   19 June [1858]

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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

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To Roderick Impey Murchison    19 June [1858] …
  • … 1: 109–10 Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 June [1858] Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet …
  • … See also letters to T.  H. Huxley, 23 October [1858] and …
  • … 3 November [1858] , and to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 29 [October 1858] and …
  • … 2 November [1858]. …
  • … Down, June 19th [1858]. I have just received your note. Unfortunately I cannot attend at …
  • … Hamilton at the Treasury Chambers on 19 July 1858 (see Correspondence vol.7, Appendix VI). …

From J. D. Hooker   31 July 1858

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The CD–Wallace paper has gone to press.

JDH’s tabulation of variable species from Bentham was done in haste.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 July 1858
Classmark:  DAR 100: 122
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2316

Matches: 10 hits

  • … From J.  D. Hooker   31 July 1858
  • … DAR 100: 122 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 31 July 1858 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … had called on the Darwins in Shanklin. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, [5 August 1858] . …
  • … and CD. Huxley was not elected a fellow of the Linnean Society until December 1858. In …
  • … published version of Darwin and Wallace 1858, p.  45, CD’s note is printed as a footnote. …
  • … for publication, and therefore was not written with care. —C.D.  1858. ’ CD’s note on this …
  • … printed as a footnote in Darwin and Wallace 1858, p.  50: ‘I can see no more difficulty in …
  • … planter improving his varieties of the cotton plant. —C.D.  1858. ’ See letter from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 13–15 July 1858 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 30 [July 1858] . Hooker means that when he counted the varieties listed under a …

Saussure, Henri Louis Frédéric de. 1858–9. Observations sur les moeurs de divers oiseaux du Mexique. Bibliothèque Universelle et Revue Suisse. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles n.s. 1 (1858): 331–8; 3 (1858): 14–25, 168–82; 4 (1859): 22–41.

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  • … Saussure, Henri Louis Frédéric de. 1858–9. Observations sur les moeurs de divers oiseaux …
  • … et Revue Suisse. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles n.s. 1 (1858): 331– …
  • … 8; 3 (1858): 14–25, 168–82; 4 (1859): 22–41. WBB4 Q900.c.146. …
  • … Offprint with diff. pagination DAR Pam G285 (Saussure 1858 in vol. 11). 16 …

To W. E. Darwin   [3 May 1858]

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Discusses bees’ cells

and WED’s botanical interests.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [3 May 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2268

Matches: 11 hits

  • … To W.  E. Darwin   [3 May 1858] …
  • … DAR 210.6: 25 Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park [3 May 1858] William Erasmus Darwin …
  • … February 1857. CD returned to Down on 4 May 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). He was probably …
  • … the wallpaper for the new rooms at Down (see letter to W.  E. Darwin, [26 April 1858] ). …
  • … stay at Moor Park. CD returned to Down on 4 May 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The date is …
  • … see letter to W.  H. Miller, [15 April 1858] ). The letter to which CD refers has not been …
  • … also letter to W.  E. Darwin, [26 April 1858] . William Greive Wilson was William Darwin’s …
  • … Account book (Down House MS), dated 8 May 1858, records a payment of £4 11 s . 6 d . to ‘ …
  • … see the letter from W.  H. Miller, [14 May 1858] . In CD’s notes relating to bees’ cells ( …
  • … Miller can give me better Diagram’. See letters to W.  E. Darwin, 11 [February 1858] and …
  • … 27 [February 1858] , in which CD asked William to look out for horses with stripes on …

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [before 13 November 1858]

Summary

Reports the decreased yield of pods resulting from excluding bees from the flowers of the kidney bean. Gives other observations suggesting the importance of bees in the fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers.

Cites cases of crosses between varieties of bean grown close together and requests observations from readers on the subject. States his belief "that is a law of nature that every organic being should occasionally be crossed with a different individual of the same species".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [before 13 Nov 1858]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 13 November 1858, pp. 828–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2359

Matches: 22 hits

  • … To Gardeners’ Chronicle    [before 13 November 1858] …
  • … Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 13 November 1858, pp. 828– …
  • … 9 Charles Robert Darwin Down [before 13 Nov 1858] Gardeners’ Chronicle …
  • … and Agricultural Gazette , 13 November 1858, pp.  828–9, under the title ‘On the agency of …
  • … Magazine of Natural History 3d ser.  2 (1858): 459–65. CD’s original letter has not been …
  • … big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge …
  • … Experimental book, p.  38 (DAR 157a). See letters to J.  D. Hooker, 12 January [1858] and …
  • … 15 January [1858] . The Wellington clover case was reported in the New Zealand Journal and …
  • … s Gardener’s Magazine 8 (1832): 50. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 12 January [1858] . See …
  • … letter from William Swale, 13 July 1858 . The quotation from Swale’s letter has been …
  • … See letter from William Swale, 13 July 1858 . Knight 1799 . In Natural selection , p.  42  …
  • … 20 October 1858 . Coe’s first response to CD’s query in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for …
  • … letter to J.  D. Hooker, [23 November 1858] , it seems that CD actually wrote the paper …
  • … hydropathic establishment on 25 October 1858. However, there is no further evidence that …
  • … beans’. CD’s experiments carried out during 1858 are recorded in his Experimental book, …
  • … in the works of Pyotr Simon Pallas . See letters from Henry Coe , 18 September 1858 , 6  …
  • … October 1858 , 12  …
  • … October 1858 , and …
  • … between 1780 and 1829. See letters from Samuel Wells , 17 November 1858 , from W.  A. …
  • … Leighton, 19 November 1858, and from John …
  • … Pearson , 23 November 1858. There was also a response to CD’ …
  • … and Agricultural Gazette , 20 November 1858, p.  845, under the signature ‘J.  B. W’. The …

To J. D. Hooker   4 [February 1858]

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Returns books by Candolle and Robert Brown.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 [Feb 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 219
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2210

Matches: 6 hits

  • … D. Hooker, 9 February [1858] . …
  • … To J.  D. Hooker   4 [February 1858] …
  • … DAR 114: 219 Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 [Feb 1858] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … the letter to J.  D. Hooker, 12 January [1858] . The date is based on the relationship to …
  • … the letter to J.  D. Hooker, 9 February [1858] . Candolle and Candolle 1824–73  and Brown …
  • … in returning them (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, 12 January [1858] ). See letter to J.   …
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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’.  Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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  • … April [1870] ). Darwin alluded here to the famous events of 1858,When Wallace had communicated his …