From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C56–7
Summary:
Sends observations from a friend in India confirming CD’s view that bees cut the tubes of flowers to extract [nectar] in order to save time.
Also observations on snails descending from trees on threads suspended from their tails.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project