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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 167: 39
Summary:

JBI’s observations on bees and wasps. The hexagonal cells made by solitary queen wasps do not fit explanation in Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 167: 40
Summary:

Did not intend his last letter as criticism. Is sure CD would not "wriggle out" of a difficulty if he had observed it.

Sends CD a wasps’ nest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project