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From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 15] Sept 1860
Source of text:
DAR 47: 165–6
Summary:

Cases of monstrosities becoming transmissible.

Comments on passages in Origin on the blindness of the tucu-tucu (Ctenomys) and Mammoth Cave rats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 18–21
Summary:

Responds to CD’s inquiries about rattlesnake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 190
Summary:

Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 181: 191
Summary:

Has made observations on bees’ cells. Their dimensions are not constant, nor do single bees make single cells; each one is a result of co-operation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project