To Nature 6 May [1876]
Summary
Reports seeing flowers of wild cherry bitten off in same manner as primroses [see 9418 and 9444]. In this case it was done by a squirrel, though birds also bite the flowers of the cherry-tree.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 6 May [1876] |
Classmark: | Nature, 11 May 1876, p. 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10498 |
To Nature [before 2 November 1876]
Summary
Summarises, with comments, two letters from Johann von Fischer [10598, 10600] on the display by monkeys of their brightly-coloured hindquarters, and the relation of this behaviour to sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 2 Nov 1876] |
Classmark: | Nature, 2 November 1876, pp. 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10660 |