To H. W. Bates 15 December [1862]
Summary
Thanks for paper and references on variations [missing].
Regrets HWB’s trouble about artists, etc., saying such trouble is a law of nature.
Asks whether HWB has heard of starving Indians who are forced to cook in different ways, and eat new things.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 15 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3861 |
From John Lubbock 15 December 1862
Summary
Thinks Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566], is very good; would appreciate an article on it from CD ["On mimetic butterflies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 219–24; Collected papers 2: 87–92].
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3862 |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
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