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DCP-LETT-7250

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[29 June 1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/11)
Summary:

Encloses seeds from Fritz Müller, of a species of Passiflora, fertilised by a humble-bee.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7251

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

DCP-LETT-7252

From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 229
Summary:

Draws CD’s attention to a paper in American Naturalist [3 (1869): 109] describing honey-bees killed by entanglement in pollen-masses of Asclepias.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
29 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 327
Summary:

On birds erecting feathers.

Comments on production of buds in Cytisus.

Discusses case of rabbit-breeding which affected subsequent progeny of female.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7254

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 65
Summary:

Has procured a Passiflora flower at last. Structure suited for humming-birds rather than bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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