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To Henry Edwards   15 July [1873]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

July 15

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for having sent me the account of the Mexiccan ant, about which I had read something before.2

Your facts are most wonderful & interesting.

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the reference to Edwards 1873 (see n. 2, below).
2
CD refers to Myrmecocystus mexicanus and Edwards’s ‘Notes on the honey-making ant of Texas and New Mexico’ (Edwards 1873). See also Origin, pp. 238–9. In his unpublished ‘big book’ on species, CD cited Wesmael 1838 for information on ants (see Natural selection, p. 369).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8978,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8978