To A. G. Butler 23 August 1875
Summary
Sends a moth from Queensland, Australia. The sender says a large number have been caught with proboscises embedded in oranges. CD interested as having a bearing on his Orchis work. Can AGB name the family and any closely allied English genus? The proboscis seems an extraordinary structure [see F. Darwin, "On the structure of the proboscis of Ophideres fullonica", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. n.s. 15 (1875): 384–9].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Date: | 23 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (28/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10133 |
To A. G. Butler 9 May 1877
Summary
"I have always been inclined to think that sparrows were acute & crafty birds, but you certainly show that they are Fools, & if they go on behaving in so idiotic a manner, you will do quite right to expose their conduct in some public Journal!--"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Date: | 9 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 67) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10957 |
To A. G. Butler 20 February [1879]
Summary
"I do not know whether the enclosed will be of any use to you.– I can say nothing of your fitness for the desired office, as I know nothing whatever of its duties.
I am sincerely sorry to hear of Mr F. Smith’s death."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1879] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11889 |
To A. G. Butler 1 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks AGB for "various notes".
Would like to hear his views about the Brahmaea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Date: | 1 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 68) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7845 |
