From Henry Walter Bates 18 March 1861
Summary
Sends his paper ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 2d ser. 5 (1861): 223–8, 335–61].
Points out three areas of interest arising from the study of the species of Papilio: the derivation of the fauna, the variability of the species, and the permanence of local varieties.
Discusses J. S. Baly’s views on specific differences in reproductive organs [Catalogue of the Hispidae in the collection of the British Museum (1858)].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3092 |
From H. W. Bates 28 March 1861
Summary
Discusses specific varieties, especially geographic varieties.
Comments on the effects of the glacial age on the tropics.
Sexual selection.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3104 |
From H. W. Bates [before 25 September 1861]
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 63 (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3240 |
From H. W. Bates 30 September 1861
Summary
Discusses the mimicry of the Volucella flies, and the bees and wasps they mimic. Compares it with the different object of mimicry in butterflies.
Refers to incompleteness of Cuthbert Collingwood’s paper [? "On homophormism, or organic representative forms", Proc. Liverpool Lit. & Philos. Soc. 14 (1860): 181–216].
Thanks CD for help in selecting a publisher for his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3271 |
From H. W. Bates [1 December] 1861
Summary
Furnishes CD with more information on Volucella and gives him references relating to this and butterfly colourings. States that colours are not necessarily related to resting-places but rather an endowment to enable them to withstand adverse conditions.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Dec] 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3336 |