From B. D. Walsh [before 31 October 1868]1
Extracts from a Journal of the doings of Cic. septemdecim in Penna. in 1851. By Dr. W. D. Hartman, of West Chester, Penna. June 6 & 7, 1851.2 They seem now to be all up, & the drums
CD annotations
Verso: ‘Just like Birds— Perhaps only a call note & best caller’ ink
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this fragment and the letter to B. D. Walsh, 31 October 1868.
CD quoted from William Dell Hartman’s ‘Journal of the Doings of Cicada septemdecim’ on the drumming sounds of the male insect in Descent 1: 351; in n. 24, he noted that Walsh had sent him the extract. The extracts have not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL; no book or paper in which they were published has been identified. CD had received information from Walsh on the stridulation of male insects in his letter of 29 August 1868.
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
Beginning of extract from William Dell Hartman’s "Journal of the doings of Cic[ada?] septemdecim" [unidentified] in Pennsylvania in 1851.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5755
- From
- Benjamin Dann Walsh
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 81: 145
- Physical description
- inc †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5755,” accessed on 4 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5755.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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