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From Richard Strachey 25 August 1873
Summary
Reports that grapes are spoiled by rain at vintage time and that damaged grapes, whose "bloom" is not intact, are particularly susceptible.
| Author: | Richard Strachey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 264 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9026 |
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 |
