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, John Traherne 1842 1874. Naturalist. M was tubercular and lived in S France. 1865 CD to M, about fertilisation of bee orchis LLiii 276. M sent orchis Neotina intacta to CD Allan. 1871 CD to M, about habits of ants and about orchids Carroll 399. 1872 CD to M, about trap-door spiders MLi 337. 1874 CD describes M as 'One of our most promising young naturalists' Nature, Lond., 11:114. Author of Harvesting ants and trap-door spiders, London 1873[ 1874], which rediscovered the habits of Atta
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entomologist, especially of ants. 1874 CD to F, having read Les fourmis de la Suisse, Zurich LLiii 191. Forms of Flowers 1877 The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, London (F1277), facsimile (F1294) 1969. 1878 2nd edition (F1279). 1884 2nd edition, 3rd thousand (F1281), with new preface by Francis Darwin. First foreign editions: German (F1297), USA (F1275) 1877; French (F1296) 1878; Italian (F1299) 1884; Russian (F1302) 1948; Japanese (F1297) 1949; Romanian (F1301) 1965. Forster
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Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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, the largest ants now essayed to pass it, holding on the wall by the hind legs, whilst the front legs were stretched out to touch the edge of the table, and the contact enabled very many to cross. The table was now removed from the wall beyond the maximum stretch of the largest ants an ant upon the wall, about a foot above the level of the sweets fell upon the table.. . . another and another followed' 534 63−1 Westwood 1836:157, '. . . many imported plants afford the most congenial food to our
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Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.
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two bats described in the Zoology (Darwin, 1838: pt. 2, 3 5) Phyllostoma grayi Waterhouse (G.R.) from Pernambuco (5 north of Bahia) and Phyllostoma perspicillatum Geoffroy from Bahia (lat. 13 S). These two names are synonymized in modern literature under Carollia perspicillatum. 357. 358. Specimens from an enormous migration of Ants. vide page 28. HYMENOPTERA, Formicidae: no specimens found, but the entry in the Journal (Darwin, 1845: 35) indicates that they were 'driver ants' (subfamily
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Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.
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449. Ants found in (I do not know whether making) a nest like (368) found at Bahia. Ants do not make it. I found one somewhat similar, filled with half dead spiders, evidently collected by some Hymenopterous insect; It is the case; vide No 536. Rio de Janeiro. May. The nests probably belong to wasps of the family Sphecidae but no specimens have been found (of ants or wasps). Further comment in the Journal (Darwin 1845: 35) includes reference to nests with dead caterpillars as well and probably
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Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.
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in the Zoology (Darwin, 1841: vol. 3, 143 4) and the Journal (Darwin, 1845: 137). 674. Moth, common on the mount. [Green Mount, 450 high] Do. LEPIDOPTERA, Arctiidae: Ecpantheria indecisa Walker (1855: 697), four in the BM (1846 38), S. America, one with white printed label 674. 675. Beetle, found in middle of an ants nest (accidental?) Do. COLEOPTERA: no specimen found. Some beetles normally live in ants nests. 676. Carabidae [beetle-struck out] common under the drift matter of the tide. Do
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Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.
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Wheeler, G. [1912.] On the dates of the publications of the Entomological Society of London. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 44(4) (1911): 750 767. Wheeler, W. M. 1919. The ants of the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4)2: 259 310. White, A. 1841. Descriptions of new or little known Arachnida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7: 471 477. 1847 1849. Nomenclature of Coleopterous insects in the collections of the British Museum Part 2
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Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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FRONT COVER INSIDE BACK COVER Expression M 49 Charles Darwin Esq 36 Grt. Marlborough Str.— (p. 64. On ‹insect› Ants getting on Table. Col. Sykes1) Private Finished.Octob.2d. This Book full of Metaphysics on Morals Speculations on Expression — 1838 Selected Dec 16 1856 1 July 15th 1838 My father says he thinks bodily complaints « mental disposition» oftener go with colour, than with form of body.— thus the late Colonel Leigton resembled his father in body, but his mother in bodily mental
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Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.
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Antarctophytosus 72 Anthicidae 47, 58, 73, 102 Anthicus atronitidus 102 wollastoni 102 Anthomyia corelia 59 cutilia 59 felsina 59 setia (=Ophyra aenescens) 91 Anthomyiidae 59, 85 Anthophora darwini 110 Anthophoridae 110 Anthrax primitiva 91 reperta 54 Anthrenus ocellifer 98 Anthribidae 91, 98, 102 Ants 48, 53, 60, 94, 101 Antyllis latipennis 100 Apanteles 91, 100, 103 Apate 91 Aperea (guinea pig) 43 Aphengium sordidum 49 Aphidius 103 Aphodii 102 Aphodius 57, 73, 76, 97, 102 3 granarius 103
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Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.
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galapagoensis 94 guerinii 73 marginata 88, 89 meticulosa 89 nebroides 84, 88, 89 obsidianus 29 patagonica 61, 76 peruviana 90 rufipalpis 86 submetallica (=lucidus), 61, 76, 89 unistriata 90 Feroniola laticollis 61, 65, 74 Figites 32 Fireflies 51 Fish 14 Fitans 30 Flattidae 99 Fleas 43, 88 see Siphonaptera Foenus darwinii 99, 110 Forficula 21, 56, 60, 61, 75 Formicidae 94 see ants Fossils 14 Frigania 57 Frigate bird 49 Fucellia 85 Fulgoridae 94, 96 Fulgoroidea 99 Fulmarus glacialoides 75 Fungus
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Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.
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, 59, 79, 84, 91, 98 9, 106 Mycetophilidae 84, 102 3 Mygalus 54 Mymaridae 110 Myolucilia 59 Myrmeleontidae 107 Mythimna unipuncta 59 Nargus anisotomoides 8 wilkini 8 Necrobia 60 Necrophorus interruptus 8 vestigator 8 Necterosoma 67, 100, 108 Nemoria 110 Neobrachypterus darwini 62, 109 Neohydrophilus politus 25, 51 Nephopullus darwini 74, 109 Nests, of ants 53, 60 of bees 65, 78 of Hymenoptera 53 of Isoptera (termites) 47 Neuroptera 99, 101, 107 Neurotrixa 59 Nezara (genus near) 98, 99, 101 Nialus
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Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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, which counterbalance each other? Is number of pollen-grains necessary to impregnate ordinary number of seeds known?— Linnasus has shown that each pistil is connected with separate division of germen ? —2 Must pollen grain be whole, to impregnate?— I presume only stigma impregnable.— At Maer Cowcumbers in frames are not artificially impregnated. Abberley says Ants— Enquire Do any of same species of Willows grow in same situation flower at same time. Has H. seen group of different species growing
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Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Richardson 1829−37 [Fauna-Boreali], vol 2. C69,73 Sweet, Robert 1830 Sweet's Hortus Britannicus: or, a catalogue of plants indigenous, or cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain. 2d ed. London. C265 Swisher, Charles N. 1967 Charles Darwin on the origins of behavior. Bull. Hist. Med. 41:24−43. Sykes, William Henry 1835 Description of the wild dog of the Western Ghats. Trans. R. Asiat. Soc. 3:405−09. QE12 1836a Descriptions of new species of Indian ants. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1:99−107. MIFC
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Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.
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Formicidae: Camponotus planus Smith (1877: 83); C. macilentus Smith (1877: 83), each of these ants have since been divided into several subspecies (mostly by Wheeler, 1919) on the different islands of the Galapagos (Linsley Usinger, 1966). Pteromalidae: Pteromalus eneobulus Walker (1838: 475), Charles I., omitted by Linsley Usinger (1966). Sphecidae: Nitela darwini Turner (1916: 345). Thynnidae: Agriomyia vagans Smith (1877: 83). HEMIPTERA Heteroptera, Lygaeidae: Nysius (?) marginalis Dallas
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Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.
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under the loose dry blocks of coral, and was the only true insect which was abundant.' The superscript refers to a more informative footnote: 'The thirteen species belong to the following orders: In the Coleoptera a minute Elater; Orthoptera, a Gryllus and a Blatta; Hemiptera, one species; Homoptera, two; Neuroptera, a Chrysopa; Hymenoptera, two ants; Lepidoptera nocturna, a Diopaea, and a Pterophorus (?); Diptera, two species.' No specimens have been found. The Deiopeia was listed by Walker
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Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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mammals MAC29 living organisms at great depth RN114 origin of plants B195 vegetation RN125 Anteaters B135, C257 Antelopes B14, C14, 93 Anticlines RN59, 175, A66, 107 Antiquity Aristotle C267 Greek philosophy M135 ideas of beauty N27 intellect of Greeks N47 Plato and Socrates E76 Temple of Serapis A95 See also Egypt Antilles, West Indies E42 Ants v Mifc, 62 −3 r Aphids B181, D40, 41, 175, QE1 r Aphrodite MAC28 Aphysia MAC28 Apion radiolum M63 Apples D178, E14−15, 17, 110, QE13, 21 v death of golden
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Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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parasites invariably this strikes me as the most novel object in a Tropical forest. On the road we passed through tracks of pasturage, much injured by the enormous conical ants nests, which in height were about 12 feet. they give to the plain exactly the appearance of the Mud Volcanoes at Jorullo, figured by Humboldt. We arrived after it was dark at Ingetado: having been 10 hours on horseback. I never ceased to wonder, from the beginning to the end of the journey, at the amount of labor which these
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Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.
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by Humble- bees sterile p. 333 Wide distribution of FW shells Coleoptera 207 Romanes SB a p. 19 Phalangidae escaping ants by lifting one after the other their long legs. 23 Blindness of Eciton an advantage in keeping them together 26 sympathetic help of ants 74. Leaf-cutting ants determines existence of trees plants in S. America 77 ants rolling loads down steep slope 79 one of leaf-cutting - p. 83 grass brought by mistake 83 learnt danger by experience from carriages on Railways p 119 intellect
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Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.
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; 1873 [Down, S] NB 0/ MOGGRIDGE, John Traherne Harvesting ants and trap spiders with supplement; London; L. Reeve Co.; 1873 [CUL] beh, che, fg, gd, oo, y vol. 1 NB1 Very clearly * described Wallace NB2 p. 36* p.128 Young spiders make web as perfect as old ones Q The seeds stored in ants nests not germinating - these cutting off the radicals bringing up damp seeds to dry are the most remarkable instincts Trap door spiders very wonderful Perhaps add to when I specify the wonder of ants xi 3-5m 128
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Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.
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119; 125 to 216; 220 to 241; 267; 288; 302; 421; 459; 468 to end of Vol SB2Qß 12 Q Emigrating insects not usually social - makes case odder 31 Bees, Wasps Ants, one female lays foundation. How in Termites p35 they seem never to work Q (Full account of Societies of Ants Bees c 35 Termites contend for the females 74 Q Each ant seemed to know its own fellow of nest - p. 80 Slave ants Bees Q 231 Beetle living in Hot-bed standing Boiling water. 234 Beetles shamming death Q 420 Showers of insects
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