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DCP-LETT-1723

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 21 July 1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 29, 21 July 1855, p. 487
Summary:

Reports on observing hive-bees visiting the leaves of vetch and bean and sucking the minute drops of nectar secreted by the glands on the underside of the stipulae. This phenomenon proves wrong those botanists who believe nectar to be a special secretion for the sole purpose of luring insects to visit flowers and thus to aid in their fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1724

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
21 July 1855
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 230)
Summary:

If AAG is no longer member of the Ray Society, CD would like to send copy of Living Cirripedia, vol. 2.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1725

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 July [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (3)
Summary:

Geographical distribution. "Close" species. Hopes AG will write an essay on species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1726

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
21 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A98–A100
Summary:

Thanks JSH for all he has done. His botanical little girls are marvellous. His marking of the list of dubious species is what CD wanted. Explains that he wanted to ascertain whether closely allied forms belong to large or small genera.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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