RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. The hexagonal comb (of Polistes?) might be introduced. CUL-DAR48.B6. Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by Kees Rookmaaker, corrections and textual notes by John van Wyhe 12.2010. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Written in pencil on grey blue paper, 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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The hexagonal comb (of Polistes?) might be introduced to show subsequent modelling of cells, under the Bees cell being 1st cemented at top.


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