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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 47: 181–9
Summary:

MS essay "On esculent fruits" [apparently enclosed in a missing letter].

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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 128
Summary:

Sends extracts, from his forthcoming book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)], about the secretion by plants of honey to attract the protection of ants. Invites CD’s comments.

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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C58–9
Summary:

Has observed in his garden hive-bees using the holes bored at the base of flowers by humble-bees.

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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 129
Summary:

Sends reference to Codrington paper on gravels ["The superficial deposits of the south of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 26 (1870): 3–28]. Comments on local gravels in railway cutting and the violent agency of their removal from hills.

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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 130
Summary:

Reports observations of T. C. Renshaw on how some flowers of the Tritoma catch bees and other insects. Thinks it may be a contrivance against unbidden visitors, as insects caught are not consumed.

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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18] Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 14
Summary:

TB is seeking a Government grant through the Royal Society so that he can give up his business and pursue his work on the glacial period; wants CD to support him with a note to Hooker.

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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 131
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s frank criticism of his views.

Hooker advises him to apply for aid to work out glaciation between Pyrenees and Alps.

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