RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Abbé Domenech, Missionary Adventures in Texas and Mexico. CUL-DAR205.11.77. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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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It wd seem from the Abbé Domenich (Missionary Adventures in Texas 1858 p. 311) that the honey secreting Mexican Ant is fed by others & that when the vesicle is full of honey, the Ant dies.— If this be so, the skin of abdomen takes the place of the wax cell of the Bee.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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