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To Charles Hardy   27 July [1860]

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Thanks CH for correction of blunder in Origin about hive-bees sucking clover: "a greater kindness than a new fact".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Hardy
Date:  27 July [1860]
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2879

To Charles Hardy?   4 September [1861]

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Has modified the statements about bees visiting clover for honey in 3d ed. of Origin. Can correspondent find out if clover in Lowestoft district was a second crop?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Hardy
Date:  4 Sept [1861]
Classmark:  Dawsons of Pall Mall (dealers) (no date)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3244

From Charles Hardy   23 July 1860

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CD mistaken, in Origin, p. 73, in saying that only humble-bees visit red clover.

Author:  Charles Hardy
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 July 1860
Classmark:  DAR 76 (ser. 2): 170
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2877
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