RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Wallace, Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton's paper on the bee's cell, etc. CUL-DAR205.11.126. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles 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.
Wallace, A. R. 1863. Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton's paper on the bee's cell, and on the origin of species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (ser. 3) 12 (70): 303-309 in John van Wyhe ed., Wallace Online: S083
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Annals & Mag of Nat. Hist. (3d series) Vol. 12. 1863. p. 304. Mr A. R. Wallace in showing the mistakes made by Revd S. Haughton in discussing Bees'-cells, well remarks that if the Bees had been guided "by any supernatural impulse to construct their cells on the best mathematical principles", the walls of the cells would have regularly decreased in thickness from the lower part of the comb," which is suspended vertically.
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