From Thomas White Woodbury [9–22 October 1861]1
I fancy the articles on “The Queen Bee” and on “Drone Influence” may not be without interest2 Since writing the latter, I have met with another instance of the same kind, one of my drones (Ligurian) having hybridised a queen at a distance of a mile and a half3 What renders it more remarkable, is that in both instances the city of Exeter lay between the lovers as well as several apiaries of common bees. One of these (Mr S. B. Fox’s)4 contained an unusual number of drones.
Yours | T. W. W.
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Summary
Fancies articles on "The queen bee" and "Drone influence" [J. Hortic. 8 October 1861, p. 39] may be of interest. Since writing the latter, one of his drones hybridised a queen at a distance of a mile and a half.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3280F
- From
- Thomas White Woodbury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- Pinned to CD’s unbound copy of Journal of Horticulture, 8 October 1861, p. 38 (Darwin Library–CUL)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3280F,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3280F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13 (Supplement)
