To John Lubbock 16 [March 1859]1
Down.
16th
Dear Lubbock
Very many thanks for your most useful note: I was quite in error about aphis.—2
I shall be most truly glad to see you on Saturday if you are able to come.— If I shd. turn bad in time to let you know, I would send down, but I hope I may not.—
I have stumbled on one of my M.S. reference to paper of L. Dufour, in Annal des Sc. (3d series) Tom 3. p. 79, in which he says, (if I have not misunderstood him) that in certain degraded Diptera, the ovarian vesicle assumes the shape “ebauche”, in the ovary, of the pupa:—(p. 87) “at no time assumes the form of larva”.—3
Would you be so very kind as to look at this paper, & give me your opinion when we meet on Saturday.
Yours very truly | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Dufour, Léon. 1845. Études anatomiques et physiologiques sur les insectes diptères de la famille des Pupipares. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Zoologie) 3d ser. 3: 49– 95.
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Summary
Wants JL’s opinion on paper by L. J. M. Dufour ["Études anatomiques sur les insectes diptères de la famille des pupipares", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 1345–55].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2434
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 263: 28 (EH 88206477)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2434,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2434.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
