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]


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

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