From:
Allen Stoneham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 259
Summary:
Has read CD’s note on the scarcity of holly berries ["Holly berries" (1877), Collected papers 2: 189–90] resulting from the scarcity of bees. Believes the shortage of bees resulted from the wet year 1875, which led to a very poor honey harvest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project