From C. S. Bate 3 March 1868
My dear Sir
Many thanks to you for your kindness in sending to me a copy of your new work on—The variation of animals under domestic treatment—1 After reading the chapter on Dog’s I thought that you might like to know that Dr Leach2 at one time had a tame wolf that followed him about & once in Paris waited for three hours for him at the entrance of the Jardin des Plantes, where dogs were not admitted— I stated this in a short memoir of Dr Leach’s life in Knight Biographical dictionary,3 on the authority of Mr Prideaux4 of Plymouth an old & intimate friend of Leach’s
Since writing to you last I had a letter from Dr Power who has collected crustacea largely in the Mauritius & in reply to my enquiry he says that he endeavoured to determine sexes by color but failed except in the instance of one species of Squilla—5
Again thanking you for your kindness | Believe me | Yours very sincerely | C. Spence Bate
Plymouth | March 3— 1868
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Footnotes
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Crane, Jocelyn. 1975. Fiddler crabs of the world (Ocypodidae: genus Uca). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
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Summary
Quotes information from Dr Power on colour of sexes of Crustacea in Mauritius [see Descent 1: 335].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5973
- From
- Charles Spence Bate
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Plymouth
- Source of text
- DAR 82: A65–6
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5973,” accessed on 26 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5973.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16