From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Sept 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 63 (fragile)
Summary:
Mention of Volucella.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1861
Source of text:
DAR 176: 207
Summary:
The embryology of the vertebrate nervous system may be an exception to the law of inheritance at corresponding ages.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1861
Source of text:
DAR 181: 39
Summary:
The Primula experiments of J. Sidebotham; HCW’s distrust of the results [see J. Sidebotham, "Specific identity of the cowslip and the primrose", Phytologist 3 (1849): 703–5].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1861
Source of text:
DAR 171.3(1): 331
Summary:
Offers to publish Orchids, giving CD one-half of the profits of each edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Obadiah Westwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Sept 1861
Source of text:
DAR 181: 89
Summary:
Has found the reference to Charles Morren’s paper, "On the agency of insects in causing sterility in flowers" [Proc. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1836): xliv–xlv].
Common white butterflies remove pollen-masses with their tarsi from plants of the Asclepiadaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 98
Summary:
List of Australian plants that have become naturalised in the Nilgiris [India] and are turning out the native trees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1861
Source of text:
DAR 205.10: 92
Summary:
Discusses the mimicry of the Volucella flies, and the bees and wasps they mimic. Compares it with the different object of mimicry in butterflies.
Refers to incompleteness of Cuthbert Collingwood’s paper [? "On homophormism, or organic representative forms", Proc. Liverpool Lit. & Philos. Soc. 14 (1860): 181–216].
Thanks CD for help in selecting a publisher for his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
Contributor:
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