To Frederick Bates 26 June [1870?]
Summary
Thanks for Trox beetles which have been forwarded [to London], but unfortunately CD has no microscope here. Is "in despair how to observe them … they sham dead" and are not inclined to stridulate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Bates |
| Date: | 26 June [1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7245A |
From H. T. Stainton 20 February 1868
Summary
Sends a preliminary reply to CD’s query [5890]. Ten males to one female among captured micro-Lepidoptera. Six females to four or five males in those he has bred. HTS is aware this is diametrically opposed to information from [Alexander] Wallace and Bates, but the true proportion of sexes can only be ascertained by breeding.
| Author: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A6–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5903 |
From H. W. Bates 18 February 1868
Summary
Has put question of proportion of sexes in insects to the Entomological Society. Quotes H. T. Stainton and F. Smith. Cites some cases mentioned by other members.
Is reading Variation; does not quite understand Pangenesis.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5893 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bates, Frederick | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bates, Frederick | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
