From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 173
Summary:
Asks whether JDH can send seeds of Hibiscus africanus and of Nolana prostrata raised at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks whether JDH can send seeds of Hibiscus africanus and of Nolana prostrata raised at Kew.
Draws CD’s attention to a paper in American Naturalist [3 (1869): 109] describing honey-bees killed by entanglement in pollen-masses of Asclepias.
On birds erecting feathers.
Comments on production of buds in Cytisus.
Discusses case of rabbit-breeding which affected subsequent progeny of female.
Has procured a Passiflora flower at last. Structure suited for humming-birds rather than bees.