From Henry Wenman Newman [before 22 October 1861]
Summary
Replies to CD’s query (see 3778): the queens or females of the humble bees are not fertilised in the air. Offers a number of observations relating to the fertilisation of bees and wasps, which he has made in the course of sixty years.
| Author: | Henry Wenman Newman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Oct 1861] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 2 (1861–2): 76–7. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3292A |
To T. H. Huxley 22 October [1861]
Summary
Mr Campbell (recommended by H. Spencer) would be a treasure but doubts any man has patience to experiment at another’s suggestion.
Jocular comments about THH’s audacity in doubting Catasetum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 177) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3293 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 October [1861]
Summary
Tells of a shooting competition at Down.
Has been working hard at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3294 |
From Charles Lyell 22 October 1861
Summary
Ice could not have formed the blockages in Lochaber unless in every case the water escaped over some col into a contiguous valley on the same watershed, or into the eastern watershed. Supposes that the cols were not land-straits, but the places where the lakes were drained when forced to flow the wrong way.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1861 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 7/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3294F |
To the Journal of Horticulture [before 22 October 1861]
Summary
Asks H. W. Newman whether the queen humble-bee is fertilised on the ground or in the air, and whether the fertilisation often takes place as late as September. [Newman’s reply follows CD’s letter.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
| Date: | [before 22 Oct 1861] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 2 (1861–2): 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3778 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Newman, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Barnacles
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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- … to have Mr. Arthrobalanus illustrated. Letter 1022 —Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [12 Nov 1846 …
