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From Benjamin Dann Walsh [25 February 1867]
Summary
Sends a copy [missing] of a lecture by L. Agassiz on glaciers.
Claims worker wasps can generate additional workers in the absence of the fertile female.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Feb 1867] |
| Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL (bound with Siebold 1857), ML 1: 248–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5419 |
To B. D. Walsh 23 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for Agassiz’s Lectures. Lyell does not believe a word about glacial action of any kind in lowlands of Brazil. Agassiz’s view of glacial movement has been given up by physicists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5455 |
To B. D. Walsh 9 August [1867]
Summary
Is not sure he thinks so much of BDW’s argument in his last paper as of some others he advanced. Is BDW sure Lucanidae use jaws for holding female in copulation rather than for fighting other males?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1867] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5603 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
