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DCP-LETT-3082

From:
Gideon Lincecum
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1861
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (MS S.P. 604A)
Summary:

Reports on the habits of the cutting ant of Texas, particularly its habit of planting shade trees to protect its mound from sun.

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DCP-LETT-3112

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
5 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (SP.704A)
Summary:

Sends two letters from G. Lincecum about ants ("perhaps the most marvellous instinct ever recorded") for possible publication. [See Gideon Lincecum, "The habits of the ""agricultural ants"" of Texas", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 6 (1862): 29–31.]

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