From Henry Walter Bates 28 January 1865
Summary
Pleased at receiving CD’s letter.
HWB informs him of favourable notice of the mimetic paper [in Wiegmann’s Arch. Naturgesch. 29 (1863) pt 2: 315–19].
He is pleased with his post [Asst. Sec. of Royal Geographical Society].
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4756 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … DAR 160: 79 Henry Walter Bates R. Geogr. Soc. 28 Jan 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the Amazon valley", by Henry Walter Bates. ] [By Charles Darwin. ] Natural History Review …
- … Walter. 1892. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. With a memoir of the author by Edward Clodd. Reprint of the first edition. London: John Murray. Collected papers : The collected papers of Charles …
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … DAR 160: 81 Henry Walter Bates R. Geogr. Soc. 29 Mar 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley. Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 495–566. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles …
From H. W. Bates 22 March 1865
Summary
Expresses pleasure at signs of CD’s recovery.
HWB’s work on the identification of species of the genus Colobthea; relates the large number of modifications that occur in the sexual organs of closely allied species. Does not doubt that this contributes greatly to multiplication of species in nature.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4792 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … DAR 160: 80 Henry Walter Bates R. Geogr. Soc. 22 Mar 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley. Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 495–566. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles …
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865
Summary
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4778 |
To B. D. Walsh 9 July [1865]
Summary
Thanks BDW for his interesting letter [4839] and for the case of Panagaeus, a genus almost sacred to him since Cambridge days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 9 July [1865] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4867 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With original omissions restored. Edited with appendix and notes by Nora Barlow. London: Collins. 1958. Bates, Henry Walter. …
- … Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols. London: John Murray. ‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles …
To T. H. Huxley 27 May [1865]
Summary
Thanks for Catalogue.
Has had a bad month. Somewhat improved as a result of John Chapman’s ice-bag cures.
Asks THH to read MS on his hypothesis Pangenesis. THH only man whose judgment on it would be final with him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 27 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 214) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4837 |
To B. D. Walsh 27 March [1865]
Summary
Comments on BDW’s papers ["On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD.
Asks about wide-ranging insect genera,
Rocky Mt. wingless insects,
willow hybrids,
galls,
and other subjects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | Field Musuem of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4797 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bates, H. W. | (3) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Bates, H. W. | (3) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
