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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 14 (EH 88205912)
Summary:

Asks whether the twins WO reported to CD [see 5470] were named Macrae. F. Galton has told him of a similar case with twins so named who inherited crooked little fingers from the maternal side [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 240]. [The twins referred to by WO were actually his sisters, see 10170.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23–4 Sept 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C63–4
Summary:

Asks whether CD has observed that bees limit their visits to a single kind of flower on each journey from the hive, as Aristotle has said they do. What advantage would such a limitation be to the insects?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
25 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 15 (EH 88205913)
Summary:

From Galton’s "twin study" he suspects that some progenitor of WO’s had the peculiarities in question.

Has collected cases of signs of assent for a revised edition of Expression.

Suggests bees visit same species because they know how far to insert proboscis and thus save time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project