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To W. E. Darwin   [3 May 1858]

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Discusses bees’ cells

and WED’s botanical interests.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [3 May 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2268

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  • Miller, [15 April 1858] ). The letter to which CD refers has not been found, but see the letter from W.  H. …
  • 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The date is confirmed by CD’s reference to ‘Spark’s bill’ (see n.  4, below). CD refers to William Hallowes Miller , professor of mineralogy at Cambridge University , whom he had consulted about the geometry of bees’ cells (see letter to W.  H. …
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