To W. J. Beal 9 November 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Nov. 9th 74
Dear Sir,
I am much obliged to you for kindly calling my attention to your paper.1 I will try when in London to see a copy, for I did not take in the A. Naturalist, so long ago.2 It is a curious fact that the Humbles did not use the holes whilst the Hive-bees did so.—3
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
See letter from W. J. Beal, 22 October 1874, in which Beal mentioned his note ‘The honey-bee gleaning after the oriole’ (Beal 1868).
The earliest issue of American Naturalist in CD’s collection of unbound journals, Darwin Library–CUL, is dated March 1871.
Summary
Thanks WJB for his reference [see 9691]. Is curious fact that the humble bees did not use the pollen, but the hive bees did.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9713F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William James Beal
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sarah Baker Topper (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p cov
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9713F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9713F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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