From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 152
Summary:
It is not true that all the fossil cave bears are of the same species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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It is not true that all the fossil cave bears are of the same species.
Has no drone cells in collection of honeycombs. Discusses construction of cells by bees and ability of bees to judge distances in constructing comb.
Returns a letter from a Mr Walsh – "a clear-headed man on my side". What he says about sea trout in lochs would make a good case for CD if borne out by professional ichthyologists.
Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .