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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert Müller
Date:
28 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D)
Summary:

Writes on slave-making ants; cannot explain why fewer slaves are caught in England than in Switzerland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 280
Summary:

Oswald Heer [in Die Urwelt der Schweiz (1866)] agrees with CD that Swiss ants (Formica sanguinea) capture more slaves than do British ants. Does this contradict selection, since the British ants are exposed to harder conditions and a poorer fauna?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 281
Summary:

Calls for more study of behaviour and less of classification to determine whether descent theory can bear the weight not [only] of reasoning but of fact. Hopes CD’s intended book [Variation] will help.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 282
Summary:

Wilson Armistead’s death cut short his work on galls, but Müller is continuing it.

In China only uni-coloured animals are sold for meat, the rest are killed in the litter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project