RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. n.d. Abstract of Huber, Observations on several species of the genus Apis, known by the name of Humble-bees, and called Bombinatrices by Linnæus. CUL-DAR205.10.47. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. 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-DAR205.10 contains notes on variation and varieties. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
P. Huber, of Lausanne in Swisserland. 1802. Observations on several species of the genus Apis, known by the name of Humble-bees, and called Bombinatrices by Linnæus. Transactions of the Linnean Society 6: 214-98.
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Linn Trans Vol 6 P. 231 Huber on Humble bees says some are subject to different accidents, such as colours, which are not inherited: & some mutilated individuals whose wings never become developed; & some with ill formed trunks.—
[Quoted in Natural selection, (F1583) p. 514.]
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