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From B. D. Walsh   [before 31 October 1868]

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Beginning of extract from William Dell Hartman’s "Journal of the doings of Cic[ada?] septemdecim" [unidentified] in Pennsylvania in 1851.

Author:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 31 Oct 1868]
Classmark:  DAR 81: 145
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5755

To Benjamin Dann Walsh   27 January [1868]

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Is sending a copy of Variation [to be published in a few days]. It cost more labour than it is worth.

George Darwin is Second Wrangler.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  27 Jan [1868]
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5803

To B. D. Walsh   14 February 1868

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Requests entomological data on sexual selection, especially proportions of sexes.

Sends Queries about expression with note: "a great hobby of mine".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  14 Feb 1868
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 12)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5876

To B. D. Walsh   17 February [1868]

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Has looked through BDW’s papers and finds heaps of facts on sexual differences. Asks questions on sexual differences in particular species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  17 Feb [1868]
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 12A)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5883

From B. D. Walsh   25 March 1868

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Sexual preference in insects;

structures for seizing females;

coloration.

Doubts whether CD can make much of a case from insects in support of sexual selection.

Author:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Mar 1868
Classmark:  DAR 82: A90–1; A117–18, DAR 85: B65
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6051

To B. D. Walsh   13 April [1868]

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BDW’s letter [6051?] and his notes are a "mine of wealth". The negative evidence is of much value. Sexual selection is a perplexing subject – finds he "must make the best of a rather bad job".

Sends copy [of Variation].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  13 Apr [1868]
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6113

From B. D. Walsh   1 May 1868

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BDW believes the coloration of species [of Anthocaris] provides a case of sexual selection.

The state of entomology in the U. S.; Darwinism now a common creed, especially among entomologists.

Author:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 May 1868
Classmark:  DAR 82: A115–16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6156

To B. D. Walsh   9 June 1868

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Thanks BDW for new facts about Anthocaris [see 6156].

Asks BDW to observe stridulation apparatus in male and female lamellicorns.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  9 June 1868
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 13)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6236

From B. D. Walsh   29 August 1868

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On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.

Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.

Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.

Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.

Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.

Author:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Aug 1868
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Charles Valentine Riley papers, Scrapbook no. 9, p. 61); DAR 47: 180; DAR 193: 54; Field Museum (pasted into C. V. Riley’s personal copy of his own 1st Annual Report of the Missouri State Entomologist)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6332A

To B. D. Walsh   21 September 1868

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Thanks BDW for pamphlets [by S. H. Scudder and J. D. Caton].

His information about Cicada is of extraordinary interest. Discusses stridulation organs which certainly sometimes differ in the sexes. CD would be curious to know if "dumb" Cicada can breed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  21 Sept 1868
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 14)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6382

To B. D. Walsh   31 October 1868

Summary

Thanks BDW for extracts about "drumming" [of male Cicada to attract females].

Asa Gray and Hooker doubt that 13–year and 17–year Cicada forms should be considered distinct species. CD is inclined to agree with them.

Suggests observations be made of ratio of females to males in the rarer form.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  31 Oct 1868
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 16)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6437
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