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DCP-LETT-7227

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 188
Summary:

Asks by what action CD believes bee, spider, and fly orchids came to resemble their namesakes

and how the beauty of bivalves could have been produced by natural or sexual selection.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7228A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
13 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 93
Summary:

In his reply to [7227] CD questions the significance of the supposed likeness of the bee, spider, and fly orchids to their presumed namesakes.

He thinks that the beauty of shells is altogether incidental and of no use to the animals.

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DCP-LETT-5927

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 June 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 181
Summary:

Sets a time for CD to call.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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