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From H. W. Bates   20 May 1868

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HWB thinks he can buy specimens of male and female insects at Mr Janson’s.

Author:  Henry Walter Bates
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 May 1868
Classmark:  DAR 160: 83
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6194

From H. W. Bates   28 May 1868

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He has been occupied with Royal Geographical Society anniversary meeting, but did go to Janson and selected various specimens for CD, some of which have remarkable stridulating organs.

The habits of Lethrus are found in Kirby and Spence’s Introduction [to entomology, 7th ed. (1856)].

Author:  Henry Walter Bates
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 May 1868
Classmark:  DAR 160: 84
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6214

To H. W. Bates   21 May [1868]

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Lists specimens he wants from Mr Janson, emphasising that he always wants male and female.

He extends an invitation for a Sunday in early June.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Walter Bates
Date:  21 May [1868]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6195
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