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 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Bates, H. W. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
