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To John Obadiah Westwood   15 August [1861]

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As a general rule CD thinks it best to deposit specimens in the British Museum, and "bitterly regrets" he did not send all his specimens there. Nevertheless he agrees to sending his crustaceans to the Oxford Museum.

CD is at work on Orchids. He would be greatly obliged if JOW could send him specimens of pollen-masses attached to head or base of proboscis of moths.

Asks for reference to Morren’s paper that JOW mentioned before [see 2862].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Obadiah Westwood
Date:  15 Aug [1861]
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3234

To J. O. Westwood   4 September [1861]

Summary

Is certain he never had Morren’s paper from JOW or heard of it before JOW’s note; will write to Gardeners’ Chronicle about it [see 3252].

Thanks for the two Sphinx moths; unfortunately the pollen-masses do not belong to orchids but to Asclepias.

Asks whether R. B. Todd’s Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology [1835–59] has an article on fertilisation of orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Obadiah Westwood
Date:  4 Sept [1861]
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3243

From J. O. Westwood   26 September 1861

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Has found the reference to Charles Morren’s paper, "On the agency of insects in causing sterility in flowers" [Proc. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1836): xliv–xlv].

Common white butterflies remove pollen-masses with their tarsi from plants of the Asclepiadaceae.

Author:  John Obadiah Westwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Sept 1861
Classmark:  DAR 181: 89
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3267
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