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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Date:

[13 June 1870?]

Source of text:

American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)

Summary:

Orders seeds, ripened in Algiers; imported seed would be of no use. [Forwarded to Algiers by JDH, see 7272.]

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

St George Jackson Mivart

Date:

13 June [1870]

Source of text:

DAR 185: 93

Summary:

In his reply to [7227] CD questions the significance of the supposed likeness of the bee, spider, and fly orchids to their presumed namesakes.

He thinks that the beauty of shells is altogether incidental and of no use to the animals.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project