From William Erasmus Darwin 5 July [1869]
Summary
Observations on flies visiting Epipactis.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6816 |
From W. E. Darwin 14 June [1862]
Summary
WED’s travel plans; an insect he has observed on Orchis maculata.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3604F |
Matches: 2 hits
From W. E. Darwin June 1862
Summary
Found 27 flowers of Orchis latifolia and in 16 of them were dead flies of one particular kind.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | June 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162.1: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … fly [ E. pennipes ] within the nectary, when he killed it. —’ CD incorporated these observations in the German translation of Orchids ( …
- … Orchids , p. 42). However, there is a note in DAR 70: 13–14, dated 20 June 1862, which describes observations by CD’s sons George and William on the pollination of O. maculata by the flies …
