From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
4 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
H. R. Glennie (private collection)
Summary:
Variations in sizes of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Variations in sizes of bees’ cells.
Discusses pollen-masses found on various insects.
Sends, for identification, specimens of bees and wasps which fertilise orchids. [Notes in FS’s hand on the same sheet identify the specimens.]
CD thanks FS for his note on Scolytus. Asks that his son [E. A. Smith] send proofs when the last woodcuts [for Coleoptera chapter of Descent] are completed.