RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 5.1858. [Notes on wasp and bee cells.] 'Saw in glass-case B[ritish] Mus[eum] a Polistes nest'. CUL-DAR48.B21. Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, textual notes by John van Wyhe 12.2010. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Written in brown ink on grey paper, 'Bees' at the bottom of the page is in pencil, underscoring in pencil, verso blank.
Reproduced with the 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.
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May /58/ Saw in glass-case B Mus. a Polistes nest, in which No. of comb cells produced into cylinders. — saw cylindrical boxes made by Bees, but F. Smith does not know of any cylin spherical cells. — He showed me the [outward] cells of wasps nest had traces of angle & says this is so even in 3 first cells formed by female wasp. — Polistes makes cells either concave or quite flat on roof over [illeg] comb.
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