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
Footnotes
Bibliography
Edwards, Henry. 1873. Notes on the honey-making ant of Texas and New Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 5: 72–75. [Reprinted in American Naturalist 7: 722–6.]
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
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.
Wesmael, M. 1838. Sur une nouvelle espèce de fourmi du Mexique. Bulletins de l’Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles 5: 766–71.
Summary
HE’s facts about the Mexican ant [Myrmecocystus mexicanus] are "most wonderful & interesting".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8978
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Edwards
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A6)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8978,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8978.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
