Comments on TVW’s book [On the variation of species with special reference to the Insecta (1856)].
On TVW’s Unitarianism. Predicts TVW will fall further away from Christianity.
[Letter sent by TVW to Charles Lyell.]
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Comments on TVW’s book [On the variation of species with special reference to the Insecta (1856)].
On TVW’s Unitarianism. Predicts TVW will fall further away from Christianity.
[Letter sent by TVW to Charles Lyell.]
Sends Madeira specimens, including frogs recently introduced into the island, and flourishing.
Madeiran insects. Regards the "Atlantic province" as a centre of the Coleoptera.
On the relationship of the loss of the powers of flight [in Coleoptera] to increase of bulk.
Informs CD that the "dishonest mollusks" were collected in May 1855 in Porto Santo. Describes some Madeira species. Though believing in "species" more and more, these may be "mere insular modifications".
Variability of certain features within insect genera.