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To Asa Gray [3–]4 September [1862]
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Glad AG will publish some separate notes on orchids ["Fertilization of orchids through the agency of insects", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 420–9].
Trimorphism in Lythrum.
Bee behaviour.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | [3–]4 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (68) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3710 |
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- … John Lubbock, [3 September 1862] , and letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 September 1862] and n. 5. In Origin , pp. 94–5, CD stated that hive-bees were unable to suck the nectar out of the flowers of the common red clover, which he claimed were ‘visited by humble-bees alone’ (see also Origin , p. 73). However, on the basis of information provided by Charles Hardy (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter from Charles Hardy, 23 July 1860 ), …
