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To R. D. Fitzgerald   9 February 1881

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Thanks for pt 6 of [Australian orchids].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:  9 Feb 1881
Classmark:  Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13045

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  • … and Caleana minor ). In Orchids 2d ed. , pp. 45–9, CD stated that the fly ophrys ( Ophrys …
  • Orchids. — I have read your account of Calæna & most curious it is; but I have as yet looked only at the other Plates. Your account of Calæna reminds me of the case of the Fly

From J. B. Innes   20 September 1881

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Did not intend his last letter as criticism. Is sure CD would not "wriggle out" of a difficulty if he had observed it.

Sends CD a wasps’ nest.

Author:  John Brodie Innes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Sept 1881
Classmark:  DAR 167: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13343

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  • orchids in 1860 and 1861 (see Correspondence vols 8 and 9). It was considered unsporting for anglers to use live bait rather than artificial flies
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