RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Huber 'Linnean Transactions'. CUL-DAR48.A26. 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.[A26]
Ch 8 Put note when I speak of 2 kinds of neuters making more or less wax
Linn Trans Vol 6 P. 249 Huber on humble bees says the males makes wax like the workers and the females but that these latter only know how to make use of it. (originally no doubt all males of all Bees secreted & worked in wax
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