From Stephen Price 30 August [1881]1
39 Chapel Place | Brompton
Aug 30
Sir
I venture to ask you if you think it possible or probable that the English gnat2 may develope in exceptionally hot weather into the mosquito?
I was once plagued frightfully with mosquitos in America and I saw at once that after all a mosquito is but a gnat and seeing that the Press attempts to account for the late apperance of mosquitos in this country by stating that they must have been imported &c I thought I would take the liberty of asking you this question.
I have the honour to be Sir | A humble admirer | Stephen Price
CD note:
*My father is sorry that he cannot answer your question.—3 [transposed from end of note]
The gnat family [‘a’ inter and del] a very difficult one & not well-known— [‘do not believe’ del] There [‘T’ over ‘t’] is no evidence, of the introduction of any new species into this country & my Father—thinks it probable this *& other similar [‘types’ del] English species of gnat has recently increased in [interl above del ‘gnat have increased in’] numbers—
Footnotes
Summary
Asks CD whether he thinks it probable that the gnat may develop into the mosquito in hot weather.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13306
- From
- Stephen Price
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Brompton
- Source of text
- DAR 202: 118
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13306,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13306.xml
