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 |
From H. W. Bates 20 May 1870
Summary
Concern over Wallace’s book [Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870)] and its apparent backsliding from Darwinian theory. HWB suggests that only CD is capable of criticising the book.
HWB hopes not too much was made over his few comments on man in M. F. Somerville’s book [Physical geography, revised ed. (1870)].
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7197 |
To H. W. Bates [22 May 1870]
Summary
Explains why he has declined writing a review for Messrs Appleton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | [22 May 1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 8018/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7765F |
| letter | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
