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