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From H. W. Bates [before 25 September 1861]
Summary
Mention of Volucella.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 25 Sept 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 63 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3240 |
From H. W. Bates 30 September 1861
Summary
Discusses the mimicry of the Volucella flies, and the bees and wasps they mimic. Compares it with the different object of mimicry in butterflies.
Refers to incompleteness of Cuthbert Collingwood’s paper [? "On homophormism, or organic representative forms", Proc. Liverpool Lit. & Philos. Soc. 14 (1860): 181–216].
Thanks CD for help in selecting a publisher for his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3271 |
To H. W. Bates 25 September [1861]
Summary
Recommends publisher for HWB; admires J. van Voorst but suggests Murray.
In reply to HWB’s letter [missing], comments on neuters and mimicry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1861] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3266 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
