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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
22 July [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 16 (EH 88205914)
Summary:

Would like to cite WO’s case of bees perforating white but not blue monkshood (Aconitum napellus) in his next book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 427–8]. Believes it is probably sterile if insects are excluded.

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From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 77: 164–5
Summary:

Recounts his observations on the different ways bees perforate flowers of white and blue varieties of monkshood. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p 428.]

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: B126–9
Summary:

Responds to CD’s comments and criticism of Geographical distribution.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1876
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B126-129
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 271-272
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 294-296]
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
23 July 1876
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/117
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
25 July 1876
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418330
Summary:

Asks for information on the comparative freedom of odiferous leaves from attack by caterpillars and other insects.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 111: B50–4; DAR 160: 290
Summary:

Observations on pollinia of Orchis maculata

and on Primula elatior. [On latter, see Forms of flowers, p. 34.]

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From:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 July 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 338-339
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
27 July 1876
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/118
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 July 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 340-342
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 32
Summary:

Experimenting on climbing plants.

Has no further information on Dionaea.

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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
30 July 1876
Source of text:
ML MSS 562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Beal Steere
Date:
30 July 1876
Source of text:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan: Joseph Beal Steere papers (85831;AC;Aa;2;Uam): Box 1
Summary:

No summary available.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
August Müller Beeck
Date:
31 July [1876]
Source of text:
Maggs Brothers (dealers) (19 August 1991)
Summary:

CD refuses to send AMB a copy of one of his works. "I did think your request unreasonable, as I have to give from 50 to 100 copies of all my books to those who aid me.––"

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