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As bearing on the question discussed by “S. B.,” and by Mr. Bridgman and others, at p. 163 ante, and in previous numbers of NATURE, the following observations may have some interest. One day in the latter part of July, 1877, I took on a flower of red clover (T. pratense) an humble-bee (Bombus Caroliva?), having the hairs of its body and legs densely dusted with pollen-grains of an Althæa, which was in full blossom in the same enclosure, about one hundred feet from the spot where I took the bee.
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C., V. Selective Discrimination of Insects. Nature 17, 424 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017424b0
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