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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
22 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Wasps’ nest has arrived.

Gives his view of how queen wasp builds a hexagonal cell by straightening walls between several cells, which she builds at the same time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Nation
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 172: 5
Summary:

Reports on the behaviour of the Peruvian cow bird, Molothrus, which lays its eggs in other birds’ nests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 122
Summary:

Sends CD a circular [missing] and asks whether he will add his name to group [Anti-Aggression League].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
[after 22 Sept 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 122v
Summary:

Although he agrees with the object of HS’s league he will not join until he has seen how it works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project