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From:
Charles-Théophile Gaudin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Aug 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 164
Summary:

Offers to supply CD with information about a new "race" of bees with a larger proboscis. They produce more honey as a result of being able to probe to greater depths.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
Date:
15 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (7 November 1992)
Summary:

Declines his Lordship’s invitation to dinner for reasons of health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project