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To W. J. Beal   9 November 1874

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Nov. 9th 74

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged to you for kindly calling my attention to your paper.1 I will try when in London to see a copy, for I did not take in the A. Naturalist, so long ago.2 It is a curious fact that the Humbles did not use the holes whilst the Hive-bees did so.—3

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin

1
See letter from W. J. Beal, 22 October 1874, in which Beal mentioned his note ‘The honey-bee gleaning after the oriole’ (Beal 1868).
2
The earliest issue of American Naturalist in CD’s collection of unbound journals, Darwin Library–CUL, is dated March 1871.

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