To H. T. Stainton 20 June [1860]
Down Bromley Kent
June 20th
Dear Sir
I am very much obliged for your second note. I have had a very satisfactory answer from Mr. Parfitt, who is evidently a careful & conscientious observer.—1
Would you kindly insert enclosed question in the Intelligencer, & answer it yourself, if it lies in your power.—2
Dear Sir | Yours truly obliged | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Has had a very satisfactory answer from Mr Parfitt. Asks HTS to insert query in Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer and also to answer it himself. ["Do the Tineina and other small moths suck flowers?", Collected papers 2: 35–6.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2839
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Tibbats Stainton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 18)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2839,” accessed on 27 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2839.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8
