From William Ogle [23–4 September 1875]
Summary
Asks whether CD has observed that bees limit their visits to a single kind of flower on each journey from the hive, as Aristotle has said they do. What advantage would such a limitation be to the insects?
| Author: | William Ogle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23–4 Sept 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C63–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10167 |
To ? 23 September [1875–6?]
Summary
Encloses a photograph and [?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1875-6] |
| Classmark: | Empire Auction (dealers) (1996) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10167F |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
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Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … making. British Journal of the History of Science 6: 9–23 [in a special issue on ‘Descent of …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … 1814] & at the end of Congo voyage [R. Brown 1818]. (Hooker 923) 7 read Decandolle …
