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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1860.07.02. saw many small thin metallic flies visiting flower of Tormentilla. CUL-DAR46.2.C35. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR46.2 contains Notes for Natural selection.

See Darwin, C. R. 1860. Do the Tineina or other small moths suck flowers, and if so what flowers? Entomologist's weekly Intelligencer 8 (30 June): 103.

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July 2d. 1860. Sudbrook Park— saw many small thin metallic flies visiting flower of ~~Potentilla~~ Tormentilla officinalis in R. Park.

[insertion:] & at Hartfield July 6th again saw metallics in other part of Park on this plant, rooting amongst anthers. Name?

Saw yellow fat fly torpidly visiting flowers of tall common gallium.— Good (Weekly Intelligencer) such many moths attracted by inodorous sugar — thus must go to nectar.— George Caryll Elephant sphynx sucking sweet peas.— I have seen proboscis of the Salpiglossa yellow with pollen.—

Minute flowers visited I shd think (if visited) by flies & moths & minute Hymenoptera—

Ch 3.

[in margin:] Remarkable I have never seen, visit on Orchis—

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