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From T. M. Story-Maskelyne   4 May 1874

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Reply to CD’s letter in Nature ["Flowers of the primrose", Collected papers 2: 183–4]. She has a canary that eats primroses.

Author:  Thereza Mary Llewelyn; Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 May 1874
Classmark:  DAR 177: 263
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9426

To T. M. Story-Maskelyne   27 August [1875–81]

Summary

Explains that the plant is not consuming the flies, but that they die becasue they get stuck in the flowers when fertilising them.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thereza Mary Llewelyn; Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne
Date:  27 Aug [1875-81]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10136F
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