From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 205.10: 95 (Letters)
Summary:
Working on sexual differences in collection of horned beetles and will send CD results.
Answers CD’s questions [sent on behalf of Miss Tollet of Betley Hall, Staffs.] on mimicry – how it helps prevent extinction, the modifications occurring with a change of habitat until mimicry occurred.
Also gives some cases of sexual differences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project