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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.509
Summary:

Discusses the different strata of the ocean and [William] Carpenter's lecture on deep sea dredging. Is digging an artesian well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project