RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. 'In British Museum / Mischocyttarus labiatus'. CUL-DAR48.B9. Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker and John van Wyhe, corrections and textual notes by 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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In British Museum
Mischocyttarus labiatus (Social Vespidae with cylindrical cells are they true & equally distant—
Icaria is social Vesp. with external cells hexagonal in direct row on a Branch— Get drawing
(For my theory I must assume that Bees can make spheres & at given distance
The wasp with Hexagonal Comb is a sub-genus of Polistes
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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