To Albert Günther 3 March 1877
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station. | Orpington. S.E.R.
March 3. 77
My dear Dr Günther,
I think No 2 cannot be my number; if printed on white paper, it then may be mine & the entrance in my catalogue is “caught on board the Beagle”.
No 235 on tin label is a spider caught at Rio de Janeiro which I say is closely allied to Epira. The abdomen coloured brilliant red. The animal makes a very regular nearly horizontal web with concentric circles & rests in the centre on the inferior surface, where there is an irregular & thin tissue of network. But this tissue is sometimes placed in the centre above the concentric web.
No 1442. Spiders caught by sweeping at King Georges Sound Australia. I am sorry to say this is all the information I can give,1
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
White, Adam. 1841. Descriptions of new or little known Arachnida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7: 471–7.
Summary
Discusses spider specimens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10875
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/115)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
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