RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Smith, 8vo Pamphlet 155. CUL-DAR47.46. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. 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-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.

Other abstracts of this pamphlet are in CUL-DAR75.127-135 and CUL-DAR75.67.


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Ch 7.

F Smith Formicidæ.— (Pamphlet Nr. 155) Formica as rule p. 97 has cocoon for larva— Myrmicæ or rather myrmicidæ have not.

p. 115. — But 2 species of Formica sometimes have & sometimes not coccoon.

(p. 97) — Formica & Myrm. allied genera, though in different sub-families —

Analogous variation

 

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adjoining parts, shd have, [words excised]

to map all the parts of eye size & placed in a [ball] [words excised] of eye by at equally near distance to the other parts so near to & at equal distance from the other parts so thus each shd have been wholly formed of a series of flat surfaces, representing the or plane of junction in section of the adjoining adjoining surfaces circular surfaces which would otherwise have been circular. Therefore I conclude xxx that the remarkable case of the comb of a surface ─ the most remarkable ever known─ Wallace theory oppose to L. Brigham Icaria (*Polistes) [illeg = =] by does not fear by any one part That the plain surfaces & angles in cells of all such organ stand in relation to the joints of the adjoin cells, I thus come to doubt from much [illeg] ─ from what we see in [2 words illeg] when [illeg]

─ In cells a slow t a g w w. So again ─ so not vast ─ solely eyelids

Even in round ­─ nest ─ [illeg = =] by Mr Wallace theory, it seems an [illeg] differing to one theory of not sole or the [prevention] of are advantageous made [illeg] of certainty.


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