A1013.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. vol. 2.   Text

in the earthen floor, and had my comfortable rattan-chair for a seat. A line across one corner carried my daily-washed cotton clothing, and on a bamboo shelf was arranged my small stock of crockery and hardware. Boxes were ranged against the thatch walls, and hanging shelves, to preserve my collections from ants while drying, were suspended both without and within the house. On my table lay books, penknives, scissors, pliers, and pins, with [page] 13

A1013.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. vol. 2.   Text

. More than a hundred years later Mr. William Funnel, who accompanied Dampier, and wrote an account of the voyage, saw specimens at Amboyna, and was told that they came to Banda to eat nutmegs, which intoxicated them and made them fall down senseless, when they were killed by ants. Down to 1760, when Linnæus named the largest species, Paradisea apoda (the footless Paradise Bird), no perfect specimen had been seen in Europe, and absolutely nothing was known about them. And even now, a hundred years

A1013.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. vol. 2.   Text

; cause of the tremendous surf at, 253, 254. Anchors of the Malays, ii. 376, 377. Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, ii. 453. Animal life, luxuriance and beauty of, in the Moluccas, ii. 155. Animals, distribution of, the key to facts in the past history of the earth, i. 225 233, 316 330; geographical distribution of, ii. 292, 293. Anonaceous trees in Borneo, i. 129. Anthribidæ, species of, ii. 32. Ants, noxious, ii. 258; at Dorey, tormented by, 328. Ape, the Siamang, i. 208. Arabs in

F877.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

; changed fleece of sheep in, i. 98. Antirrhinum majus, peloric, i. 365; ii. 59, 70, 166; double-flowered, ii. 167; bud-variation in, i. 381. ANTS, individual recognition of, ii. 251. APES, anthropomorphous, ii. 123. APHIDES, attacking pear-trees, ii. 231; development of, ii. 361-362. APOPLEXY, hereditary, occurring at a certain age, ii. 78. APPLE, i. 348-350; fruit of, in Swiss lake-dwellings, i. 317; rendered fastigate by heat in India, i. 361; bud-variation in the, i. 376; with dimidiate fruit, i

CUL-DAR47.24    Note:    1868.06.06   Add to when I speak of honey secreting bracts of Leguminosae   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [24] June 6/68/ Add to when I speak of honey secreting by bracts of Leguminosæ, — glands on under sides of leaf, near base near midrib of common laurel, which secretes minute drop of sweet fluid. visited by Hive Bee Ants

F387    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1869. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 5th ed. Tenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

At the same time I laid on the same place a small parcel of the pup of another species, F. flava, with, a few of these little yellow ants still clinging to the fragments of their nest. This species is sometimes, though rarely, made into slaves, as has been described by Mr. Smith. Although so small a species, it is very courageous, and I have seen it ferociously attack other ants. In one instance I found to my surprise an independent community of F. flava under a stone beneath a nest of the

F3380    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1908. [Letter to Richard Spruce, 1869]. In R. Spruce, Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes. Edited by Alfred Russel Wallace. 2 vols. London, vol. 2, pp. 384-6.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 384 CHAPTER XXIV ANTS AS MODIFIERS OF PLANT-STRUCTURE (THE paper which forms the greater part of this chapter was written during the first few years after Spruce's return to England, and at a time when he had probably not seen, and had certainly not carefully read, the Origin of Species, the teachings of which at a later period he fully appreciated. At this period he accepted—as did almost all naturalists, including Darwin himself—what is

A1013.1    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. vol. 1.   Text

more than usual difficulties. One small room had to serve for eating sleeping and working, for storehouse and dissecting-room; in it were no shelves, cupboards, chairs or tables; ants swarmed in every part of it, and dogs, cats and fowls entered it at pleasure. Besides this it was the parlour and reception-room of my host, and I was obliged to consult his convenience and that of the numerous guests who visited us. My principal piece of furniture was a box, which served me as a dining-table, a

F387    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1869. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 5th ed. Tenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

CHAPTER VII. INSTINCT. Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin Instincts graduated Aphides and ants Instincts variable Domestic instincts, their origin Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees Slave-making ants Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct Changes of instinct and structure not necessarily simultaneous Difficulties of the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts Neuter or sterile insects Summary. INSTINCTS might have been worked into the

F387    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1869. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 5th ed. Tenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

I will not pretend to conjecture. But as ants, which are not slave-makers, will, as I have seen, carry off pup of other species, if scattered near their nests, it is possible that such pup originally stored as food might become developed; and the foreign ants thus unintentionally reared would then follow their proper instincts, and do what work they could. If their presence proved useful T 2 [page] 27