From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Philip Mansel Weale
Date:
6 May [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.308)
Summary:
Sends advice on naturalist matters.
W. H. Harvey’s work [with Wilhelm Sonder, Flora capensis (1859–65)],
and Robert Brown’s publication ["On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchideae and Asclepiadeae", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 16 (1833): 685–745].
Writes of having seen in S. America a Hymenopteran with tarsi covered with pollen-masses of Asclepias.
Interested in JPMW’s researches in South American caverns.
Mentions poor health.
Thanks for tracings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project