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From Richard Strachey   9 December 1873

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Sends observations from a friend in India confirming CD’s view that bees cut the tubes of flowers to extract [nectar] in order to save time.

Also observations on snails descending from trees on threads suspended from their tails.

Author:  Richard Strachey
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Dec 1873
Classmark:  DAR 46.2: C56–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9176