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From Friedrich Rolle   28 May 1868

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Questions CD’s view in Variation that Torfschwein formerly ranged from Europe to China.

Cites numerous German publications relating to CD’s theory.

Author:  Friedrich Rolle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 May 1868
Classmark:  DAR 176: 204
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6213

From H. W. Bates   28 May 1868

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He has been occupied with Royal Geographical Society anniversary meeting, but did go to Janson and selected various specimens for CD, some of which have remarkable stridulating organs.

The habits of Lethrus are found in Kirby and Spence’s Introduction [to entomology, 7th ed. (1856)].

Author:  Henry Walter Bates
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 May 1868
Classmark:  DAR 160: 84
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6214