To W. H. Miller 5 June [1860]
Summary
Discusses measurements of bees’ cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
| Date: | 5 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2468 |
To W. E. Darwin [3 May 1858]
Summary
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: 2 hits
- … Miller, [15 April 1858] ). The letter to which CD refers has not been found, but see the letter from W. H. …
- … 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The date is confirmed by CD’s reference to ‘Spark’s bill’ (see n. 4, below). CD refers to William Hallowes Miller , professor of mineralogy at Cambridge University , whom he had consulted about the geometry of bees’ cells (see letter to W. H. …
To W. H. Miller 31 December [1860]
Summary
Thanks WHM for information about honeycombs. Discusses his own measurements of combs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.189) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2617 |
To G. R. Waterhouse 1 April [1860]
Summary
Has no drone cells in collection of honeycombs. Discusses construction of cells by bees and ability of bees to judge distances in constructing comb.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | 1 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2740 |
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 W. H. Miller [14 May 1858]
Summary
[Six fragments, mainly diagrams.] The geometry of bees’ cells.
| Author: | William Hallowes Miller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 May 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 48: B1b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2272 |
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: 2 hits
- … Waterhouse’s theory, see letter to W. H. Miller, [15 April 1858] , and Origin , pp. 225– …
- … 1858, Brougham had read a paper at the Académie des sciences in Paris ( Brougham 1858 ) in which he again stated his belief that the cell-making instincts of bees illustrated the marvellous operation of God’s design in nature. See also letter to W. H. Miller, [ …
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [May–June 1858]
Summary
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 |
To W. H. Miller [15 April 1858]
Summary
A set of questions CD prepared for his meeting with WHM to discuss the geometry of bees’ cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
| Date: | [15 Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 24a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2255A |
To J. D. Hooker 10 April [1858]
Summary
Asa Gray’s criticism of Buckle and his comments on large and small genera.
CD suspects glacial epoch immensely long. Rates of organic change too variable to make them a good measure of geological time.
Bees’ cells are a difficulty for theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 231 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2254 |
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Miller, W. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Miller, W. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Miller, W. H. | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
