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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
25 June [1860]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:

Would like to borrow the bees that, as reported in Gardeners’ Chronicle, were sent to JOW with pollen-masses of orchids sticking to them. CD has never seen a bee visit an orchid. He believes he could identify the genus and perhaps species of the orchids the pollen comes from.

His health is too bad to attend the meeting [of British Association for the Advancement of Science].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
9 July [1860]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:

Thanks JOW for the bees. The pollen-masses that were attached to one of them have unaccountably been lost.

Does not know of a paper by Charles Morren on orchids and insects, and would be glad to have the reference [see 3267, and Orchids, p. 270 n.].

Has spent so much money recently he is unwilling to subscribe for the purchase of T. V. Wollaston’s collection for the [Oxford] Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
15 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:

As a general rule CD thinks it best to deposit specimens in the British Museum, and "bitterly regrets" he did not send all his specimens there. Nevertheless he agrees to sending his crustaceans to the Oxford Museum.

CD is at work on Orchids. He would be greatly obliged if JOW could send him specimens of pollen-masses attached to head or base of proboscis of moths.

Asks for reference to Morren’s paper that JOW mentioned before [see 2862].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
4 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collection)
Summary:

Is certain he never had Morren’s paper from JOW or heard of it before JOW’s note; will write to Gardeners’ Chronicle about it [see 3252].

Thanks for the two Sphinx moths; unfortunately the pollen-masses do not belong to orchids but to Asclepias.

Asks whether R. B. Todd’s Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology [1835–59] has an article on fertilisation of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
30 July 1862
Source of text:
Washington University in St Louis Libraries, Special Collections (tipped into Orchids QK926.D259 1862)
Summary:

Asks JOW if he can see bee with pollen masses, and gives details for sending it by post or rail.

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Darwin Correspondence Project