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From Auguste Forel   23 June 1876

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Coleoptera inhabiting ants’ nests. Means of colonisation of new nests.

Author:  Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 June 1876
Classmark:  DAR 164: 156
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10545

To the editor of The Times   23 June 1876

Summary

Forwards for publication an article by Dr Richardson [apparently not published] showing the necessity of experiments on living animals. Hopes it will make women, "who from the tenderness of their hearts and from their profound ignorance are the most vehement opponents of all such experiments", pause.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  The Times
Date:  23 June 1876
Classmark:  The Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin (The Times (London, England) collection MS 4238)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10546