Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects

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Jan 1907

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Nature, Volume 75, Issue 1944, pp. 320 (1907).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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DR. ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, in an article entitled ``Creation by Law,'' contributed to the Quarterly Journal of Science in October, 1867, alluded to a Madagascar orchis (Angraecum sesquipedale) with a nectary varying length from 10 inches to 14 inches, and prophesied that a hawk-moth will be discovered with a tongue of equal length to fertilise it. ``That such a moth exists in Madagascar may be safely predicted, and naturalists who visit that island should search for it with as much confidence as astronomers searched for the planet Neptune-and they will be equally successful!'' Will someone kindly tell me if this prophecy was fulfilled; if so, when, and the name of the moth?

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