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DCP-LETT-2777

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cottage Gardener
Date:
[after 8 May 1860]
Source of text:
Cottage Gardener 24 (1860): 143
Summary:

Inquires whether "a Devonshire Bee-keeper" [T. W. Woodbury] who reported a common drone entering a hive of Ligurian bees [Cottage Gard. 24 (1860): 94] believes, with Andrew Knight, that queen bees are seldom fertilised by their own blood-relations. Asks how far a hive of common bees was from that of the Ligurians.

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DCP-LETT-2948

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Nicolaus (Nicholas) Trübner
Date:
14 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/8
Summary:

Orders a copy of September number of Silliman’s Journal. A friend has recommended an article in it [A. Gray and D. Treadwell, "Discussion between two readers of Darwin’s treatise on the origin of species", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 226–39].

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