From H. W. Bates 20 May 1868
Royal Geographical Society | 15, Whitehall Place, S.W.
May 20 1868
My Dear Mr Darwin
I think I can get ♂ & ♀ of the Onitis furcatus & also males & females of two or three species of Geotrupes at Mr Janson’s (Dealer);1 he has promised to oblige us, but I must go to his place to select them as soon as I can spare an hour
Yours sincerely | H W Bates
These insects are very cheap—a few pence each for the more curious Geotrupes with conspicuous sexual differences— Would you like more than one or two species?
CD annotations2
CD note:
[♂ & ♀ in each—]
Onitis [interl]
Typhæus English sp.—
Copris— not the [interl] English species
2 sp. of Geotrupes
& 4 [after del ‘3 or’] *or 5 [interl] other genera or subgenera *— Those wch differ little & [illeg] which the appearance [is sexual] | some differing [more & some differing little by] [illeg] [added pencil]
(Chiosognotis grantii.)
Chiasognath [added pencil]
Footnotes
Summary
HWB thinks he can buy specimens of male and female insects at Mr Janson’s.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6194
- From
- Henry Walter Bates
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- R. Geogr. Soc.
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 83
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6194,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6194.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
