To John Obadiah Westwood 25 June [1860]
Summary
Would like to borrow the bees that, as reported in Gardeners’ Chronicle, were sent to JOW with pollen-masses of orchids sticking to them. CD has never seen a bee visit an orchid. He believes he could identify the genus and perhaps species of the orchids the pollen comes from.
His health is too bad to attend the meeting [of British Association for the Advancement of Science].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Obadiah Westwood |
| Date: | 25 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum (Hope Entomological collections) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2844 |
To J. O. Westwood 9 July [1860]
Summary
Thanks JOW for the bees. The pollen-masses that were attached to one of them have unaccountably been lost.
Does not know of a paper by Charles Morren on orchids and insects, and would be glad to have the reference [see 3267, and Orchids, p. 270 n.].
Has spent so much money recently he is unwilling to subscribe for the purchase of T. V. Wollaston’s collection for the [Oxford] Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Obadiah Westwood |
| Date: | 9 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2862 |
