From Robert Swinhoe 4 August 1868
Summary
Discusses a domestic oriental fowl.
Is having problems getting answers to CD’s queries on expression as Chinese facial expressions are limited and controlled. Answers as well as he can. [See Expression index.]
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 331 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6303 |
From B. D. Walsh 29 August 1868
Summary
On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.
Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.
Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.
Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.
Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Charles Valentine Riley papers, Scrapbook no. 9, p. 61); DAR 47: 180; DAR 193: 54; Field Museum (pasted into C. V. Riley’s personal copy of his own 1st Annual Report of the Missouri State Entomologist) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6332A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray , to have a copy of Variation sent to him via the New York office of the French publisher, Hippolyte Baillière . The letter from Baillière of New York to Walsh is in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Walsh had also had trouble receiving a presentation copy of the fourth edition of Origin (see Correspondence vol. 14, letters to B. …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
