From H. W. Bates 29 March 1865
Royal Geographical Society | 15, Whitehall Place, S.W.
March 29 1865
My Dear Mr Darwin
Enclosed is the promised portrait.1 Will you do me the favour to send me yours for my album;2 the larger one you gave me in 1862 now hangs up in my study.3
I sent a copy of “Mimetic Butts. to Mr Walsh.4 We are overwhelmed here with North Pole business.5
Yours sincerely | H W Bates
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley. Lepidoptera: Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 495–566.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
He encloses a portrait and asks for one of CD.
He has sent mimetic paper to B. D. Walsh.
Mentions work at Royal Geographical Society on N. Pole business [plans for an Arctic expedition, eventually postponed until 1875–6].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4800
- From
- Henry Walter Bates
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- R. Geogr. Soc.
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 81
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4800,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4800.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13