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Darwin Correspondence Project

To H. W. Bates   6 February [1877]

From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham

Please return me Prof. Weismann’s letter, as it contains reference about eggs.1 I shall be curious to hear some time how you succeed in your negotiation about the drawings.—2

C.D.

Feb. 6th

Footnotes

August Weismann’s letter has not been found. CD had suggested that Weismann investigate the colour of birds’ eggs in his letter to Weismann of 12 January 1877.
Bates was trying to obtain the loan of drawings of the stages of caterpillars of British Lepidoptera for Weismann (see letter to August Weismann, 12 January 1877 and n. 8).

Summary

Requests return of August Weismann’s letter which refers to eggs.

Curious about the drawing [of the caterpillar? See 10780].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10829
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Henry Walter Bates
Sent from
Down
Postmark
FE 6 77
Source of text
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Physical description
ApcS

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10829,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10829.xml

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