RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1875.09.23-24]. Letter from William Ogle. CUL-DAR46.2.C63-C64. 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.


[C63]

[Letter]

[C64]

[Letter]

Dr Ogle says that Aristotle observes that Bees on any single journey from the hive limit their visits to a single kind of flower

[C64v]

The bee for works for a time, that is as long as it can find flowers of the same sp. on the principle that an man can engine if a man by habit can make had to make 6 several engines, he wd complete the work quicker, if he made 6 6 of the wheels of each kind one after the other. are complex prob adop copies of an apparatus consisting of several parts


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