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To Auguste Forel   19 June 1876

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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.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:  19 June 1876
Classmark:  Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:794)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10539

To Auguste Forel   28 September [1874]

Summary

Thanks AHF for his book on ants of Switzerland;

recommends reading Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:  28 Sept [1874]
Classmark:  Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:792)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9661

To Auguste Forel   15 October 1874

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Writes about AHF’s book on Swiss ants.

Recounts his own observations on ants carrying cocoons.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:  15 Oct 1874
Classmark:  Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:793)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9680
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