From H. W. Bates 2 May [1863]
Summary
His satisfaction at CD’s acceptance of book as well as total public acceptance. Murray has given him a £250 advance. His pleasure at Asa Gray’s words.
Next task will be to write on origin [of species] by segregation of local races.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4138 |
From H. W. Bates 29 September 1863
Summary
HWB’s concern over CD’s poor health.
Gives accounts of reviews of his book in the Times and in the Revue des Deux-Mondes by E.-D. Forgues ["Un naturaliste sous l’équateur", Rev. Deux-Mondes 46 (1863): 703–37].
Thanks CD for the A. Gray review of his paper [see 4022].
Reports his current work is a monograph on Mantidae.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4313 |
From H. W. Bates 24 October 1863
Summary
Returns Gray’s review [of paper on mimetic analogy, Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 285–90]
and expresses his sorrow over CD’s health.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323 |
From Henry Walter Bates 28 January 1865
Summary
Pleased at receiving CD’s letter.
HWB informs him of favourable notice of the mimetic paper [in Wiegmann’s Arch. Naturgesch. 29 (1863) pt 2: 315–19].
He is pleased with his post [Asst. Sec. of Royal Geographical Society].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4756 |
From H. W. Bates 22 March 1865
Summary
Expresses pleasure at signs of CD’s recovery.
HWB’s work on the identification of species of the genus Colobthea; relates the large number of modifications that occur in the sexual organs of closely allied species. Does not doubt that this contributes greatly to multiplication of species in nature.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4792 |
From H. W. Bates 29 March 1865
Summary
He encloses a portrait and asks for one of CD.
He has sent mimetic paper to B. D. Walsh.
Mentions work at Royal Geographical Society on N. Pole business [plans for an Arctic expedition, eventually postponed until 1875–6].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4800 |
From H. W. Bates 19 December 1866
Summary
HWB sends a copy [missing] of Boutakoff’s letter, explaining that the deer were saiga antelopes and the islands were new discoveries.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5313 |
From Henry Walter Bates 11 March 1867
Summary
Sexual ornamentation of insects: coloration of Epicalia genus [of tropical S. American butterflies];
horned genera of lamellicorn beetles [see Descent 1: 370, 388].
Wallace brought CD’s question about gay-coloured caterpillars before the Entomological Society. Members now seeking explanations.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A36–9, A46–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5438 |
From H. W. Bates 29 March 1867
Summary
Working on sexual differences in collection of horned beetles and will send CD results.
Answers CD’s questions [sent on behalf of Miss Tollet of Betley Hall, Staffs.] on mimicry – how it helps prevent extinction, the modifications occurring with a change of habitat until mimicry occurred.
Also gives some cases of sexual differences.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 95 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5474 |
From H. W. Bates 18 February 1868
Summary
Has put question of proportion of sexes in insects to the Entomological Society. Quotes H. T. Stainton and F. Smith. Cites some cases mentioned by other members.
Is reading Variation; does not quite understand Pangenesis.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5893 |
From H. W. Bates 21 February 1868
Summary
Comments on J. O. Westwood’s entomological nomenclature.
Discusses the organs for stridulation in Orthoptera [see Descent 1: 352ff].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A32–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5909 |
From H. W. Bates 26 February 1868
Summary
Finds no absolute differences in size of sexes of Copridae. Gives several other genera in which males are larger than females.
Confirms his view of stridulation organ of house cricket. [see Descent 1: 354–5.]
Tells CD of a powerful convert to Darwinism: H. von Kiesenwetter of Berlin.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5936 |
From H. W. Bates 12 March 1868
Summary
Results of his examination of divergence in sexual coloration of tropical American butterflies. [See Descent 1: 389 on Junonia and Papilio.]
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A40–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6007 |
From H. W. Bates 20 April 1868
Summary
In addition to the drawing of a caterpillar which CD intends to use,
HWB sends information on differences of colour and pattern between the sexes of species of Papilio.
Argynnis diana and A. sagana have females that are brightly coloured, but these may be cases of protective mimicry.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A42–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6132 |
From H. W. Bates 20 May 1868
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6194 |
From H. W. Bates 28 May 1868
Summary
He has been occupied with Royal Geographical Society anniversary meeting, but did go to Janson and selected various specimens for CD, some of which have remarkable stridulating organs.
The habits of Lethrus are found in Kirby and Spence’s Introduction [to entomology, 7th ed. (1856)].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6214 |
From H. W. Bates 10 September 1868
Summary
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6360 |
From H. W. Bates 29 September 1868
Summary
Informs CD of K. G. Semper’s desire to meet him and to discuss new information on volcanic phenomena, geographical distribution, etc.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6399 |
From Henry Walter Bates 8 June 1869
Summary
Ashamed that members of the Entomological Society have almost no information on sex ratio of bred insects in response to CD’s query of months ago. One exception, William Buckler, promises results. [See Descent 1: 313.]
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6778 |
From Henry Walter Bates 17 January 1870
Summary
Returns CD’s MS [of entomological section of Descent] marked with suggested alterations.
Suggests qualifications about rudimentary horn in female Onitis furcifer [See Descent 1: 372].
Sends additional data on colour differences in sexes of longicorn Coleoptera [See Descent 1: 367–8].
Suggests a modification of CD’s view of female coloration that would bring him "nearly into harmony" with Wallace.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A44–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7082 |
Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
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Bates, H. W. | (47) |
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