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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 July 1858
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
No summary available.
Believes that, in Dicentra, Fumaria and Corydalis, flower structures are related directly to visits from bees. Flower stigmas generally are placed in the path of bees.
Has received paper from Wallace on natural selection; has sent abstract of his notions, with Wallace’s paper, to Linnean Society.
Death in family [Charles Waring Darwin]. Illness of children forces him to leave home and interrupt work on pigeons.