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 |
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- … From H. W. Bates 19 December 1866 …
- … See letter to H. W. Bates, 18 December [1866] . Bates evidently affixed a separate piece …
- … 1866 My dear Mr Darwin On the other side is the extract you require. I presume “saigak” means the same as “saiga”, therefore the animals were the saiga antelope. The islands were new discoveries ; the Kirghises of the Aral shores did not know of their existence. Yours sincerely | H W Bates …
To Henry Walter Bates 18 December [1866]
Summary
Asks for a letter on the tameness of deer, written by Commander A. Boutakoff to R. I. Murchison and printed in the Journal [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 23 (1853): 93–101].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 18 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5312 |
To H. W. Bates 11 June [1862]
Summary
Encloses a question [missing] concerning language [from Hensleigh Wedgwood].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 11 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.284) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3596 |
To Ernst Haeckel 21 May [1867]
Summary
Discusses his previous criticisms of EH’s Generelle Morphologie. Fears it will make enemies.
Discusses reception of descent theory in England.
Mentions EH’s trip to Canary Islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 21 May [1867] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5544 |
To John Murray 28 May [1866]
Summary
Has corrected and improved Origin.
Now hopes to make real progress [on Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 28 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 143–144) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5103 |
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- … 1866] ). The fourth edition of Origin is fifty-seven pages longer than the third edition. The front matter included a list of significant additions. CD had made the same recommendation to Murray for the third edition of Origin (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to John Murray, 30 April [1861] ). In a letter to H. W. Bates, …
From A. R. Wallace 11 March [1867]
Summary
ARW responds to CD’s list of queries about expression. Suggests acquiring informants through publishing the queries in newspapers. His doubts about their importance.
Has submitted caterpillar question to Entomological Society.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B24, B45; DAR 82: A22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5437 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Bates, H. W. | (3) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
