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From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 153
Summary:

Sends a copy of his book on Swiss ants [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Notes points and passages that he thinks will interest CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:
28 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:792)
Summary:

Thanks AHF for his book on ants of Switzerland;

recommends reading Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:
15 Oct 1874
Source of text:
Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:793)
Summary:

Writes about AHF’s book on Swiss ants.

Recounts his own observations on ants carrying cocoons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 154
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s favourable opinion of his book [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Habits of ants; observations on their carrying empty eggs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 155
Summary:

Thanks for the present of the book [Thomas Belt, The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:
19 June 1876
Source of text:
Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:794)
Summary:

Asks how the Coleoptera that inhabit the nests of ants colonise a new nest. Wallace has suggested their ova become attached to winged female ants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 156
Summary:

Coleoptera inhabiting ants’ nests. Means of colonisation of new nests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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