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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
15 December [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.5
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.
Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.
Awakened by a mouse scratching at night, he mewed like a cat and the mouse disappeared.
Sending a group of stuffed sparrows.
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