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DCP-LETT-12696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
23 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

JBI’s "barnacles" would have been extraordinary, but they are hard lichens.

Has revisited Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
2 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Elizabeth Margaret Elliott Lucas (private collection)
Summary:

Hensleigh Wedgwood has told CD that land JBI had inquired about will be sold at auction with the house [Trowmer [Tromer!?] Lodge].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13339

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
15 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD interested in JBI’s observations of behaviour of bees. Finds his criticism about hexagonal cells made by queen wasps a good one. Cannot remember how he got out of the difficulty.

His book on worms to be published soon.

E. A. Darwin has died after short illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13349

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
22 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Wasps’ nest has arrived.

Gives his view of how queen wasp builds a hexagonal cell by straightening walls between several cells, which she builds at the same time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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