To H. W. Bates 6 February [1877]
From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham
Please return me Prof. Weismann’s letter, as it contains reference about eggs.1 I shall be curious to hear some time how you succeed in your negotiation about the drawings.—2
C.D.
Feb. 6th
Footnotes
August Weismann’s letter has not been found. CD had suggested that Weismann investigate the colour of birds’ eggs in his letter to Weismann of 12 January 1877.
Bates was trying to obtain the loan of drawings of the stages of caterpillars of British Lepidoptera for Weismann (see letter to August Weismann, 12 January 1877 and n. 8).
Summary
Requests return of August Weismann’s letter which refers to eggs.
Curious about the drawing [of the caterpillar? See 10780].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10829
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Walter Bates
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- FE 6 77
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10829,” accessed on 8 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10829.xml
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