From H. W. Bates 11 January 1877
Summary
Encloses extract [missing] on a caterpillar.
Mentions William Buckler’s magnificent drawings of caterpillars [The larvae of the British butterflies and moths, Ray Soc. (1886–91)], but doubts Buckler will lend them for any Darwinian purpose. John Hellins has a portion of drawings and is more liberal.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10780 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from H. W. Bates, 20 April 1868 ); CD included a description of it in Descent 1: 416. Bates had not described a snake-like caterpillar in his book The naturalist on the river Amazons ( Bates 1863 ), but the caterpillar he saw was mentioned in a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace (see Correspondence vol. 18, letter from A. R. Wallace, 6 July 1870 ). Grant Allen …
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Date
| 1877 | (1) |
