RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. 1841.07.03. [Observations on Humble bees in Shrewsbury]. CUL-DAR49.27. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2021. 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-DAR49 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 3 on 'On...organic beings occasionally crossing' or dichogamy.
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Shrewsbury July 3d 1841.
Saw very many humbles and common Bees on flowers in Bear field, and likewise on small-headed yellow Clover, some in dry field; saw only one humble on layer, whose weight quite disproportionate these bees so numerous that in two or three days, I should think every flower would be visited; yet how often at Maer, have I watched bear fields in vain.
Saw several humble in Vetch field.
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