RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Müller, Anwendung der Darwinschen Lehre auf Bienen. CUL-DAR89.70. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. RN1

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-DAR 87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).

Darwin cited this in Descent 2d ed., pp. 292-293.

Müller, Hermann. Anwendung der Darwinschen Lehre auf Bienen. Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen Vereines der preussischen Rheinlande, 29 (1872), pp. 1-96.

There is an annotated copy of Müller's article in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection-CUL.


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[in margin:] S. Selection Insects

H. Müller Befruchtung after his great experience in watching the visits of insects to flowers, is fully convinced & gives his reason, that certain groups of insects prefer certain colour & other groups other colours.


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