To John Lubbock 16 [December 1862]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
16th
My dear Lubbock
You are right, I am a selfish dog.— I am aghast at all you have to do.2 In a day or two I will do my best (but I confess to sighs & groans) to give your readers a brief notion of Bates’ paper; how far I shall succeed, I know not.—3
I wonder what you are going to Lecture on at Royal. Instn—4
Most truly yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley. Coleoptera: Longicornes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 9: 117–24, 396–405, 446–58.
‘Review of Bates on mimetic butterflies’: [Review of "Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", by Henry Walter Bates.] [By Charles Darwin.] Natural History Review n.s. 3 (1863): 219–24. [Collected papers 2: 87–92.]
Summary
H. W. Bates’s paper; CD will review it. ["Mimetic butterflies" (1863), Collected papers 2: 87–92.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3864
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 263
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3864,” accessed on 11 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3864.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
