From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[3 Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 55
Summary:
CD was in error about bees’ behaviour at clover.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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CD was in error about bees’ behaviour at clover.
Glad AG will publish some separate notes on orchids ["Fertilization of orchids through the agency of insects", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 420–9].
Trimorphism in Lythrum.
Bee behaviour.
Thanks for the pamphlet on the Figure of the Earth, but regrets he cannot agree with its conclusions. Points out some of the more serious errors.
Is grateful for the ? which made him laugh. Hopes that Lady Herschel will accept the enclosed.