To Frederick Bates 19 June [1868?]
Summary
"Though next Spring will be rather late, I do not think it will be too late, & if in your power to send me some living specimens of Trox sabulosus, I shd. be greatly indebted to you.––-"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Bates |
| Date: | 19 June [1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6787A |
To Frederick Bates 26 June [1870?]
Summary
Thanks for Trox beetles which have been forwarded [to London], but unfortunately CD has no microscope here. Is "in despair how to observe them … they sham dead" and are not inclined to stridulate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Bates |
| Date: | 26 June [1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7245A |
Matches: 2 hits
- … between this letter and the letter to Frederick Bates, 19 June [1868? ] ( Correspondence …
- … Frederick Bates, 19 June [1868? ] . CD discussed the stridulation of Trox sabulosus in Descent 1: 380, commenting that he himself had failed to discover the organs of stridulation in this beetle (see also Correspondence vol. 16, letter …
From H. T. Stainton 20 February 1868
Summary
Sends a preliminary reply to CD’s query [5890]. Ten males to one female among captured micro-Lepidoptera. Six females to four or five males in those he has bred. HTS is aware this is diametrically opposed to information from [Alexander] Wallace and Bates, but the true proportion of sexes can only be ascertained by breeding.
| Author: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A6–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5903 |
To H. W. Bates 25 November [1862]
Summary
[Apparently in reply to question in missing portion of 3825.] A written agreement is unnecessary, but a letter stating terms would prevent misundertanding. He will attempt to have a review of HWB’s paper published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3827 |
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 Henry Walter Bates 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends CD ch. 2 of his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons] for suggestions, having accepted CD’s recommendations concerning ch. 1.
Effects of climate on dress in ch. 1 similar to, but independent of, notions expressed by CD in his Journal of researches [p. 381].
On geology, book deals with distribution and theory of deltas of the Amazon.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3377 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bates’s younger brother, Frederick, had been a keen entomologist since childhood. Their father, Henry Bates , was a hosiery manufacturer in Leicester. CD suggested that Bates place his historical description of the town of Pará, Brazil, at the end of the first chapter (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter …
From H. W. Bates 20 April 1863
Summary
Expresses hope that CD is ready to pronounce sentence on his book;
he relates his financial position and mentions that he hopes to get a position at the British Museum.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4116 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bates had been involved with his brothers, Frederick, John, and Samuel, in the family hosiery business in Leicester since returning from South America in 1859 ( Woodcock 1969 , pp. 16, 240). In 1862, Bates had hoped to be considered for a zoological assistantship in the natural history department of the British Museum (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
To H. W. Bates 3 December [1861]
Summary
Thanks HWB for references.
Praises his paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", read before Linnean Society, 21 Nov 1861, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862) : 495–566] which solves "one of the most perplexing problems which could be given to solve".
Discusses the difficulties of writing and expresses disappointment at Wallace’s book [Travels on the Amazon (1861)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1861] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3338 |
To C. S. Bate 18 August [1851]
Summary
Thanks CSB for cirripede larvae.
Has been unwell.
Cannot see transverse articulation referred to and does not believe in it.
Sends species synonyms.
Discussion of Chthamalinae.
Suggests using asphalt to seal specimen containers.
Comments on mouth of larva.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1345 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bate, Charles Spence. 1851. On the development of the Cirripedia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 8: 324–32. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Ellis, John. 1758. An account of several rare species of barnacles. In a letter …
From H. W. Bates 24 November 1862
Summary
Gratified by CD’s approval of paper which was also praised by Hooker and Wallace. Only cares for one other opinion, that of C. Felder of Vienna. He finds ordinary entomologists are not scientific men. Asks for more criticisms; desires to publish paper in a widely circulating journal to advertise his book.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3825 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bates 1863 ). CD had known John Frederick William Herschel for many years (see Correspondence vol. 2); however, his name is not in CD’s Address book (Down House MS). Herschel lived at Collingwood House, Hawkhurst, Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862). Herschel contributed monthly summaries of recent scientific discoveries to the Cornhill Magazine between September 1862 and March 1863 ( Wellesley index ); however, Bates 1862a was not discussed in any of his notices. Some indication of the contents of the missing portion of the letter …
From J. D. Hooker [6 March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 114–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4036 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1863] and n. 4. Frederick Smith’s paper on the geographical distribution of the aculeate Hymenoptera collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago ( F. Smith 1863 ) was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 5 March 1863. Since his return from South America in 1859, Henry Walter Bates …
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