From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1860
Source of text:
DAR 177 (fragile)
Summary:
Has studied CD’s Jamaican hive-bees and finds them identical to Apis mellifica.
Discusses the structure of wasps’ and bees’ nests
and the occurrence of winged and apterous individuals within some insect genera and species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project