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From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 264
Summary:

Reports that grapes are spoiled by rain at vintage time and that damaged grapes, whose "bloom" is not intact, are particularly susceptible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
[29 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:

Writes for CD to thank RS for his very valuable information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C56–7
Summary:

Sends observations from a friend in India confirming CD’s view that bees cut the tubes of flowers to extract [nectar] in order to save time.

Also observations on snails descending from trees on threads suspended from their tails.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
10 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:

The case of the bees interests CD. He does not doubt that because of the size of their jaws humble-bees will be found all over the world to be the biters and hive-bees to profit from their work.

Thinks he has heard of land shells descending in the manner described by RS.

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Darwin Correspondence Project