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DCP-LETT-13337

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

DCP-LETT-13339

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
15 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD interested in JBI’s observations of behaviour of bees. Finds his criticism about hexagonal cells made by queen wasps a good one. Cannot remember how he got out of the difficulty.

His book on worms to be published soon.

E. A. Darwin has died after short illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13343

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

DCP-LETT-13349

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
22 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Wasps’ nest has arrived.

Gives his view of how queen wasp builds a hexagonal cell by straightening walls between several cells, which she builds at the same time.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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