RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. It would be good to give truncated comb & see whether Bees do gnaw down. CUL-DAR48.B4. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by John van Wyhe 12.2010. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. 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.
Written in pencil on blue grey paper, (printing on verso, source unidentified).
[B4]
It would be cul good to give truncated comb & see
whether Bees do know gnaw down.
[B4v]
[Torn-down printed item signed Thomas Gillow]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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