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From:

Alfred Russel Wallace

To:

Charles Robert Darwin

Date:

8 Aug 1862

Source of text:

DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 4–5

Summary:

Muscular fibres of whale no larger than those of bee – evidence of a community of origin.

Problem of the abortive wings of ostrich in relation to conditions of their survival.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Hewett Cottrell Watson

Date:

8 [Aug 1862]

Source of text:

Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.2)

Summary:

Asks HCW’s help with his experiments on Lythrum salicaria, for which he needs flowers of the rare Lythrum hyssopifolia.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project