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DCP-LETT-11496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
8 May [1878]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/30)
Summary:

Doubts Ledum warrants investigation. Glands probably serve only to protect the flowers against crawling insects, which would not cross-fertilise them.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11497

From:
Arthur Fairfield Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May [1878]
Source of text:
Nature , 30 May 1878, p. 121
Summary:

Found a live mussel attached to a blue-winged teal’s foot. Had the bird not been shot, the mussel might have been transported miles.

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