RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. When I speak of different habits of Life. CUL-DAR85.B117. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. RN2

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).


[B117]

When I speak of different habits of Life add about pollen carrying apparatus in female Hymenoptera

Whether Snout of male Curculionidæ elongated & may be this. I know not. (Kirby Vol 3. p. 309)

(Females alone have stings & some ovipositors?) but here are common to primary sexual organs

Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-1826. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. CUL-DAR.LIB.337 vol. 3 PDF


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