From Henry Walter Bates 8 June 1869
Royal Geographical Society | 15, Whitehall Place, S.W.
June 8 1869
My dear Mr Darwin
I am ashamed to say that my brother Entomologists have almost nothing to offer you in statistics of sexes of bred insects.
Last evening there was a Meeting of the Society & I took the opportunity of asking all the practical Entomologists individually if they had done anything towards answering the appeal made to them some months ago & I found they had done nothing.1 There was only one exception & I am promised the results of enumeration by one gentleman a Mr Buckler, which as soon as I receive I will forward to you.2
I trust this glorious weather finds you well & in happy working condition
Yours sincerely | H W Bates
I have had a fearfully busy season—in Geography3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6778
- From
- Henry Walter Bates
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- R. Geogr. Soc.
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 87
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6778,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6778.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
