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To B. D. Walsh   21 September 1868

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Thanks BDW for pamphlets [by S. H. Scudder and J. D. Caton].

His information about Cicada is of extraordinary interest. Discusses stridulation organs which certainly sometimes differ in the sexes. CD would be curious to know if "dumb" Cicada can breed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  21 Sept 1868
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 14)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6382

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  • John Murray, 18 September [1868] . CD refers to a work by Samuel Hubbard Scudder on the stridulating organs of Orthoptera ( Scudder 1867 ; see letter from B.   …

To B. D. Walsh   20 August [1866]

Summary

On various subjects: Dana’s misquotations,

H. J. Clark’s book Mind in nature [1865],

BDW’s Cynips experiments, galls,

Balbiani’s paper on aphids ["Sur la reproduction et l’embryogénie des pucerons", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 62 (1866): 1231–4, 1285–9, 1390–4].

Claus and other Germans testing CD’s views of variability in common lower animals.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  20 Aug [1866]
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5194

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  • John Murray was CD’s publisher. CD refers to Walsh 1866c , to James Dwight Dana and to Dana 1866 . See letter from B.   …

To B. D. Walsh   24 December [1866]

Summary

Balbiani’s puzzling observations on Aphis.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  24 Dec [1866]
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5320

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  • John Murray, 22 December [1866] and n.  2). The 29 September 1866 issue of the Practical Entomologist contained Walsh’s article on the naturalised gooseberry saw-fly ( Walsh 1866a ); CD’s heavily annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.  The other issue has not been found. Walsh was associate editor of the Practical Entomologist. See letter from B.   …

To B. D. Walsh   14 February 1868

Summary

Requests entomological data on sexual selection, especially proportions of sexes.

Sends Queries about expression with note: "a great hobby of mine".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:  14 Feb 1868
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 12)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5876

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  • B.  J.  Walsh, 27 January [1868] . Walsh’s name is on CD’s presentation list for Variation (see Correspondence vol.  16, Appendix IV). On the sales of Variation , see the letter from John Murray, …
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