To Albert Müller 28 March [1866]1
Down Bromley Kent
March 28th
Dear Sir
I shd. have been very glad to have given you the desired information, had it been in my power; but I can assign no reason for fewer slaves being captured in England than in Switzerland.2 That this is the case, can hardly be doubted after Mr Smith’s & my own examination of so many nests.—3 I forget whether I stated in the earlier edition of the Origin that I had found one nest with the slaves going out in search of food.—4
I remain Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Huber, Pierre. 1810. Recherches sur les mœurs des fourmis indigènes. Paris and Geneva: J. J. Paschoud.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Writes on slave-making ants; cannot explain why fewer slaves are caught in England than in Switzerland.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5040
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Albert Müller
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5040,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5040.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14