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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 November 1861
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 134
Summary:
Refers to Bates' admiration of ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Refers to Bates' admiration of ARW.
No summary available.
Acropera species may be males of other orchids.
Homologies of ducts in orchids.
Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.
Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.