RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Huber on humble bees 'Linnean Transactions'. CUL-DAR48.A17. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. 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-DAR48 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 8 'Transitions of Organs'. Notes on bees' cells for origin of species theory.
P. Huber. Observations on several species of the genus apis, known by the name humble-bees, and called bombinatrices by Linneæus. Read 5 May 1801. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, vol. 6: 214-298.[A17]
Linn Trans V. 6. P. 284 Huber on humble bees says the large females who were born in autumn has instincts for more kinds of work than the workers she does everything they do & more. A worker when solitary does not work
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