From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Rudd
Date:
18 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.441)
Summary:
Discusses LR’s communication concerning supernumerary mammae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Discusses LR’s communication concerning supernumerary mammae.
CD has observed hundreds of primrose flowers cut off their stalks, and conjectures that this was done by birds to obtain the nectar. Asks readers of Nature in England and abroad whether primroses are subject to such destruction in their localities.