The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. June 8. Annotated illustrations of bees' cells. CUL-DAR48.B28. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

NOTE: 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.

B28

June 8th

(2 scale)

[sketch]

Broad face of board

[sketch]

June 9' These additions subsequent & over hanging & hence in process of eating away.
As on very edge projecting walls seem to have been eaten away. dots near places where ridges probably once stood dots near traces of ridge

(June 10' all the ragged part removed & 2 nice cells formed in upper row)

[sketch] all now eating away

Same face as A

(B) after about 18 hours June 9'

See how B & C have been modified! They evidently build by a set of teutonic effort

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)