To Henry Walter Bates 11 February [1868]
Summary
Asks about proportions of male to female insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 11 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5858 |
To H. W. Bates 19 February [1868]
Summary
CD in utter confusion about differences between J. O. Westwood and HWB on division of certain insects. Asks if HWB will homologise certain families for him, telling him which terms would be most generally understood.
Asks also about differences on sound-producing organs of Achetidae Gryllidae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 19 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5895 |
To H. W. Bates 22 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks HWB for bringing "the question of sexes" before the Entomological Society. Feels he will come to some conclusion by comparison of numerous observations.
It appears Pangenesis "will expire unblessed and uncursed by the world".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 22 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph file, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5914 |
To H. W. Bates 18 March [1868]
Summary
Requests information on the standard of beauty of savages and on whether the female has any influence in selecting a male.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 18 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6022 |
To H. W. Bates 15 April [1868]
Summary
CD has questions related to colour differences in the sexes of butterflies, especially in relation to HWB’s paper ["On variation in sexes of Argynnis diana", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 4 (1865): 204–7].
Mentions that his MS on Lepidoptera [for Descent] is longer than he intended and the information is four-fifths owed to HWB.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 15 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6120 |
To H. W. Bates 22 April [1868]
Summary
Thanks HWB for answering questions.
The MS on Lepidoptera is almost finished and he is glad HWB will read it; he is fearful of mistakes, not being familiar with the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 22 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6135 |
To H. W. Bates 21 May [1868]
Summary
Lists specimens he wants from Mr Janson, emphasising that he always wants male and female.
He extends an invitation for a Sunday in early June.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 21 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6195 |