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From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 264
Summary:

Reports that grapes are spoiled by rain at vintage time and that damaged grapes, whose "bloom" is not intact, are particularly susceptible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C56–7
Summary:

Sends observations from a friend in India confirming CD’s view that bees cut the tubes of flowers to extract [nectar] in order to save time.

Also observations on snails descending from trees on threads suspended from their tails.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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