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To Down School Board 19 December 1873
Summary
Expresses his opinion that the Board should allow the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evenings by the villagers of Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9185 |
From Richard Strachey 9 December 1873
Summary
Sends observations from a friend in India confirming CD’s view that bees cut the tubes of flowers to extract [nectar] in order to save time.
Also observations on snails descending from trees on threads suspended from their tails.
| Author: | Richard Strachey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C56–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9176 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Strachey, Richard | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Down School Board | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Down School Board | (1) |
| Strachey, Richard | (1) |
