WCP1996

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WYCHFIELD,

HUNTINGDON ROAD,

CAMBRIDGE.

Mar 15. 1886

My dear Sir

I have received the MS. safely, I am glad that some of the notes will be of use — I am sorry that I have not been able to look at our diagrams [2] for fertilis^{n but I will do so} – Both Kny's¹ Wand Tafeln & Dodel-Port's² diagrams have coloured representat^ns of insects going to flowers — A hawk moth at a martagon lily, a bee at a salvia, and ^{a bee} at some open flower (Pyrus?). I do not use them in my lectures as I think diagrams drawn [3] with thick black lines much better — but the coloured ones would be most effective as magic lantern slides —

Yours very faithfully | Francis Darwin [signature]