The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1859.05.24-25. I can now say that I have (12) 3 new nests with slaves. CUL-DAR205.11.103. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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-DAR205.11 contains notes on Instinct, change in habit.

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May 24th I can now say that I have (12) 3 new nests with slaves.— I took several F. fusca from independent communities & put them in nest of F. sanguinea & all which I could follow were invariably killed. I took one slave after 24 hours in Battle & put back in nest, it was seized & threatened by 4 or 5 masters & then let go, but I failed in tracing it further—

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May 25th turned out another slave into same nest, was not hurt, but not noticed.—

In a nest with many very small slave-makers could not perceive that the big came out nest.

1859.—

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