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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
10 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A120–A121
Summary:

Thanks JSH for specimens. Comments on the structure of a hornet comb and asks JSH to obtain some fresh combs for him and to make observations for him. He is greatly interested in "these wondrous architectural instincts".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Richard Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 166: 218
Summary:

Will secure information on indigenous and naturalised bees as CD requests.

Believes Mexican and Jamaican Melipona are different.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project