Death in family [Charles Waring Darwin]. Illness of children forces him to leave home and interrupt work on pigeons.
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Death in family [Charles Waring Darwin]. Illness of children forces him to leave home and interrupt work on pigeons.
Believes that, in Dicentra, Fumaria and Corydalis, flower structures are related directly to visits from bees. Flower stigmas generally are placed in the path of bees.
Has received paper from Wallace on natural selection; has sent abstract of his notions, with Wallace’s paper, to Linnean Society.