To H. W. Bates 30 March [1867]
Summary
Would like tabulation of horned beetles if not too troublesome, but would easily settle for general remarks.
On the subject of other species mocking Heliconidae, asks whether full-coloured ones were mocked. Expresses full belief in HWB’s theory.
Encloses a copy of A. R. Wallace’s letter to the Field requesting observations on which caterpillars birds devour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 30 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5476 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To H. W. Bates 30 March [1867] …
- … this letter and the letter from H. W. Bates, 29 March 1867 . See letter from H. W. …
- … Bates, 29 March 1867 . See letter from H. W. Bates, 29 March 1867 . Emma Darwin recorded …
- … species (see letter from H. W. Bates, 29 March 1867 and n. 7). CD had praised Bates’s …
- … Tegetmeier, 29 March 1867 and n. 3. See letter from H. W. Bates, 29 March 1867 and …
From H. W. Bates 29 March 1867
Summary
Working on sexual differences in collection of horned beetles and will send CD results.
Answers CD’s questions [sent on behalf of Miss Tollet of Betley Hall, Staffs.] on mimicry – how it helps prevent extinction, the modifications occurring with a change of habitat until mimicry occurred.
Also gives some cases of sexual differences.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 95 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5474 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From H. W. Bates 29 March 1867 …
- … sexual selection (see letter from H. W. Bates, 11 March 1867) . For Bates’s published …
- … Tollet (see letter to H. W. Bates, 30 March [ 1867] and n. 3). Tollet evidently asked …
- … 2005 ). See also letter from H. W. Bates, 11 March 1867 and n.5. Bates refers to what …
From A. R. Wallace 18 September [1868]
Summary
Submits a 15–point argument against CD’s views on the coloration of female birds and insects.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A14–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6375 |
From A. R. Wallace 15 March [1868]
Summary
Coloration of butterflies; brilliantly coloured females.
Commends CD on his paper on specific differences in Primula [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54; reprinted and revised in Forms of flowers] as a test-case proving origin of real species.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 82: 23–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6012 |
From H. W. Bates 26 February 1868
Summary
Finds no absolute differences in size of sexes of Copridae. Gives several other genera in which males are larger than females.
Confirms his view of stridulation organ of house cricket. [see Descent 1: 354–5.]
Tells CD of a powerful convert to Darwinism: H. von Kiesenwetter of Berlin.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5936 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Berlin Entom. Zeitschrift 1867 pt 3– 4 Yours sincerely | H W Bates 1.2 This … common; 1.5] …
- … H. W. Bates, 22 February [1868] and n. 8. Bates refers to the British Museum . Orthoptera is the order of grasshoppers, crickets, and their allies. In Descent 1: 353, CD remarked that in males of the family Achetidae (now Gryllidae, crickets) both wing covers have the same structure. Bates refers to Ernst August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter, and to Kiesenwetter 1867 . …
From H. W. Bates 12 March 1868
Summary
Results of his examination of divergence in sexual coloration of tropical American butterflies. [See Descent 1: 389 on Junonia and Papilio.]
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A40–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6007 |
To Lawson Tait 13 November [1877]
Summary
CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 13 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11235 |
From A. R. Wallace 11 March [1867]
Summary
ARW responds to CD’s list of queries about expression. Suggests acquiring informants through publishing the queries in newspapers. His doubts about their importance.
Has submitted caterpillar question to Entomological Society.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B24, B45; DAR 82: A22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5437 |
To A. R. Wallace 26 February [1867]
Summary
ARW’s explanation of protective value of conspicuous coloration is ingenious.
CD still holds to sexual selection with respect to beauty in male butterflies.
Sexual selection and the races of man.
Expression of emotions is another subject he plans to include in his essay [Descent].
Asks ARW to suggest an observer in Malay Archipelago to whom he might send queries [on expression].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 26 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5420 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1867] and n. 8). CD eventually concluded in Descent 1: 399, 403–4, that bright colours in male butterflies and some male moths were generally a result of sexual selection rather than for protection. For CD and Bates’s earlier consideration of bright colours and sexual selection in butterflies, see also Correspondence vol. 9, letter to H. W. …
- … H. W. Bates, 28 March 1861 and n. 7. He reported the belief that the colours of dragonflies served as a sexual attraction in Descent 1: 361–2, and discussed the sounds made by cicadas and Orthoptera in ibid. , pp. 350–61. For Wallace’s suggested experiments, see his letter of 24 February [1867] . …
To Roland Trimen 12 February [1868]
Summary
Is interested in the relative numbers of males and females of all animals; wants any instances of males, or females, being in excess.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5867 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 May 1863]
Summary
Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.
Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.
Cameroon plants.
JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 137–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4165 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … H. W. Bates, 20 April 1863 ). For the direction of Bates’s career after 1863, see Woodcock 1969 , pp. 255–61. Bates’s evolutionary entomology was unpopular with the members of the Entomological Society of London, of whom CD wrote: ‘No body of men were at first so much opposed to my views’ (see letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 May [1867] , …
To Ernst Haeckel 21 May [1867]
Summary
Discusses his previous criticisms of EH’s Generelle Morphologie. Fears it will make enemies.
Discusses reception of descent theory in England.
Mentions EH’s trip to Canary Islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 21 May [1867] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5544 |
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- … 1867 . See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 12 May 1867 . CD was mistaken about the date. CD had commented on Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie ( Haeckel 1866 ) in his letter to Haeckel of 12 April [1867] . CD was himself a founder member of the Entomological Society of London. He had written before about the supposed hostility of entomologists to his views: see, for example, Correspondence vol. 8, letter to H. W. Bates, …
From A. R. Wallace 2 January 1864
Summary
Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells
and Origin.
Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.
Work problems.
His butterfly collection.
Problems with book on Malay journey.
Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.
Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B8–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1867 and 1868 writing The Malay Archipelago ( Wallace 1869 ); he spent the preceding three years in preparatory work related to his collections. See Wallace 1905 , 1: 405–6. Wallace refers to Henry Walter Bates’s recently published and successful book, The naturalist on the river Amazons ( Bates 1863 ); CD had encouraged Bates’s work on the book and had assisted him in its publication. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter from H. W. …
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