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 25 January 1879
Summary
F. Galton and others suggest that he go in for Fellowship [of Royal Society]. Asks that CD propose him. If he is unable to do so HWB will not be hurt to wait another year.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11846 |
From H. W. Bates [17 April 1862]
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3511 |
From H. W. Bates 11 January 1862
Summary
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3381 |
From H. W. Bates 7 February 1874
Summary
Books CD requested have been packed and sent.
He will present CD with the classified catalogue [of Royal Geographical Society].
He has not learned whereabouts of Thomas Staley.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9275 |
From H. W. Bates 24 October 1863
Summary
Returns Gray’s review [of paper on mimetic analogy, Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 285–90]
and expresses his sorrow over CD’s health.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323 |
From H. W. Bates 20 May 1868
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6194 |
From H. W. Bates 15 November 1873
Summary
Encloses A. R. Wallace’s reply [in which he says he will undertake revision of Descent if CD wishes]. HWB says this shows that Wallace is unaware of the scope of revision; suggests need for well-defined terms.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 89, 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9144 |
From H. W. Bates 14 June 1862
Summary
Sends answer to Wedgwood’s query
and is sorry to hear CD is again unwell.
His book is progressing very slowly.
Asks that CD not make use of any of the facts about generative organs in beetles for he finds "such a chaos of statements" that facts are not to be depended upon.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3604 |
From H. W. Bates 25 January 1862
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 65a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3412 |
From H. W. Bates 19 December 1866
Summary
HWB sends a copy [missing] of Boutakoff’s letter, explaining that the deer were saiga antelopes and the islands were new discoveries.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5313 |
From H. W. Bates 10 September 1868
Summary
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6360 |
From H. W. Bates 29 September 1868
Summary
Informs CD of K. G. Semper’s desire to meet him and to discuss new information on volcanic phenomena, geographical distribution, etc.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6399 |
From Henry Walter Bates 8 June 1869
Summary
Ashamed that members of the Entomological Society have almost no information on sex ratio of bred insects in response to CD’s query of months ago. One exception, William Buckler, promises results. [See Descent 1: 313.]
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6778 |
From H. W. Bates 29 March 1865
Summary
He encloses a portrait and asks for one of CD.
He has sent mimetic paper to B. D. Walsh.
Mentions work at Royal Geographical Society on N. Pole business [plans for an Arctic expedition, eventually postponed until 1875–6].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4800 |
From H. W. Bates 28 May 1868
Summary
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 |
From H. W. Bates 1 October 1874
Summary
Notes that Mr[s] Barber’s communication [forwarded by CD] will be published because of more striking than usual facts ["Notes on … larva and pupa of Papilio nireus", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1874): 519–21].
Encloses Thomas Belt’s address.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9666 |
From H. W. Bates 20 April 1868
Summary
In addition to the drawing of a caterpillar which CD intends to use,
HWB sends information on differences of colour and pattern between the sexes of species of Papilio.
Argynnis diana and A. sagana have females that are brightly coloured, but these may be cases of protective mimicry.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A42–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6132 |
From H. W. Bates 20 May 1870
Summary
Concern over Wallace’s book [Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870)] and its apparent backsliding from Darwinian theory. HWB suggests that only CD is capable of criticising the book.
HWB hopes not too much was made over his few comments on man in M. F. Somerville’s book [Physical geography, revised ed. (1870)].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7197 |
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 |
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