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Further answers on his seed lot.

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Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]

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Calculations relating to bees’ cells.

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States his belief that there is a tendency to note varieties in the larger genera rather than in the very small ones.

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Bees’ cells; is the hexagonal shape deliberate or merely the result of lateral pressure on cylinders?

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Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.

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Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.

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Bees’ cells. Observations on Osmia atricapilla.

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Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.

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Sends WED a bank draft.

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Discusses geometry related to the structure of bees’ cells. Encloses notes and diagrams dealing with intersections of spheres.

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Bees’ cells; GRW thinks hexagonal shape is accidental. Encloses notes on cells of Icaria.

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Has examined feet of many partridges, but has not been able to obtain any quantity of mud from them.

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Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).

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GRW’s observations of and ideas on bees’ and wasps’ cells.

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Discusses matters relating to WED’s first term [at Cambridge].

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Answers CD’s queries about seed lot he has just sent.

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Is it fair to take advantage of knowing that Wallace is in the field? Seems hard on CD to lose priority of many years, but does not feel this alters justice of case.

Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] has much fever. Frightened because three children in village have died from scarlet fever.

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Discusses the ranges and distribution of varieties relative to the type species.

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Sends more bean seeds.