To H. W. Bates 22 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks HWB for bringing "the question of sexes" before the Entomological Society. Feels he will come to some conclusion by comparison of numerous observations.
It appears Pangenesis "will expire unblessed and uncursed by the world".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 22 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph file, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5914 |
To H. W. Bates 22 April [1868]
Summary
Thanks HWB for answering questions.
The MS on Lepidoptera is almost finished and he is glad HWB will read it; he is fearful of mistakes, not being familiar with the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 22 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6135 |
Matches: 4 hits
From H. T. Stainton 20 February 1868
Summary
Sends a preliminary reply to CD’s query [5890]. Ten males to one female among captured micro-Lepidoptera. Six females to four or five males in those he has bred. HTS is aware this is diametrically opposed to information from [Alexander] Wallace and Bates, but the true proportion of sexes can only be ascertained by breeding.
Author: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5903 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Bates, 11 February [1868] , and letter from H. W. Bates, 18 February 1868 . CD compared …
- … Smith . See letter from H. W. Bates, 18 February 1868 and nn. 1 and 3. CD wrote on the …
- … 1868] . CD reported Stainton’s remarks on the proportion of the sexes in the smaller moths in Descent 1: 310–11. Elachista is in the family Elachistidae (grass leafminer moths). CD had sought information on insects from Henry Walter Bates . See letter to H. W. …
To H. W. Bates 21 May [1868]
Summary
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 |
To H. W. Bates 18 March [1868]
Summary
Requests information on the standard of beauty of savages and on whether the female has any influence in selecting a male.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 18 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6022 |
From Edward Westey Janson 25 May 1868
Summary
Sends specimens selected by H. W. Bates.
Among the Lamellicornes the family Dynastidae have most instances of presence of stridulating organs; Frederick Smith says that in Hymenoptera female Mutilla has stridulating faculty in high degree.
[Itemised bill for Coleoptera specimens enclosed.]
Author: | Edward Westey Janson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6209 |
From H. W. Bates 20 April 1868
Summary
In addition to the drawing of a caterpillar which CD intends to use,
HWB sends information on differences of colour and pattern between the sexes of species of Papilio.
Argynnis diana and A. sagana have females that are brightly coloured, but these may be cases of protective mimicry.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A42–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6132 |
From H. W. Bates 28 May 1868
Summary
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 Edward Alfred Smith [11–31 March 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Alfred Smith |
Date: | [11–31 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7052 |
To H. W. Bates 15 April [1868]
Summary
CD has questions related to colour differences in the sexes of butterflies, especially in relation to HWB’s paper ["On variation in sexes of Argynnis diana", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 4 (1865): 204–7].
Mentions that his MS on Lepidoptera [for Descent] is longer than he intended and the information is four-fifths owed to HWB.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 15 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6120 |
From H. W. Bates 21 February 1868
Summary
Comments on J. O. Westwood’s entomological nomenclature.
Discusses the organs for stridulation in Orthoptera [see Descent 1: 352ff].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A32–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5909 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From H. W. Bates 21 February 1868 …
- … Westwood 1839–40 ). See letter to H. W. Bates, 19 February [1868] . In his discussion of …
- … 1913): 120). See letter to H. W. Bates, 19 February [1868] and n. 5. CD described both …
- … Orthoptera, see the letter to H. W. Bates, 19 February [1868] , n. 3. See Bates 1863 , …
From H. W. Bates 26 February 1868
Summary
Finds no absolute differences in size of sexes of Copridae. Gives several other genera in which males are larger than females.
Confirms his view of stridulation organ of house cricket. [see Descent 1: 354–5.]
Tells CD of a powerful convert to Darwinism: H. von Kiesenwetter of Berlin.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5936 |
To Roland Trimen 21 February [1868]
Summary
RT’s argument about the Lasiocampa strikes him as very good; asks for any similar cases. Wonders whether male butterflies may serve more than one female.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5908 |
From H. W. Bates 18 February 1868
Summary
Has put question of proportion of sexes in insects to the Entomological Society. Quotes H. T. Stainton and F. Smith. Cites some cases mentioned by other members.
Is reading Variation; does not quite understand Pangenesis.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5893 |
To J. J. Weir 1 September 1868
Summary
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 1 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 319 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6343 |
To H. T. Stainton 2 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks HTS for his valuable information. Hopes to arrive at probable answer to question of proportion of males to females in the progeny of butterflies bred in domestication.
On courtship of butterflies, CD believes something more than chance is involved in determining which male is successful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Date: | 2 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5967 |
To Henry Tibbats Stainton 18 February [1868]
Summary
Asks for information on coloration and proportions of sexes in butterflies and moths for his work on sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Date: | 18 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5890 |
To J. D. Hooker [8–10 September 1868]
Summary
Has written to A. J. Gower.
Sends more copies of Queries about expression.
Pall Mall Gazette article [see 6342] is monstrous to say religion did not attack science. Should scientific men ignore whole subject of religion?
Sends French journal with article on JDH and one (weak) by Agassiz on geographical distribution.
M. J. Berkeley has sent his address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7].
CD differs with JDH on Owen; could hardly bear to shake hands with him.
Wallaces, Blyth, Jenner Weirs are coming to stay on Sunday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8–10 Sept 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 91–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6357 |
To Roland Trimen 12 February [1868]
Summary
Is interested in the relative numbers of males and females of all animals; wants any instances of males, or females, being in excess.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5867 |
To B. D. Walsh 9 June 1868
Summary
Thanks BDW for new facts about Anthocaris [see 6156].
Asks BDW to observe stridulation apparatus in male and female lamellicorns.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 9 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6236 |
letter | (40) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Bates, H. W. | (11) |
Janson, E. W. | (2) |
McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Bates, H. W. | (8) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Stainton, H. T. | (2) |
Trimen, Roland | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
Bates, H. W. | (19) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Stainton, H. T. | (3) |
Trimen, Roland | (3) |