From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 83
Summary:
HWB thinks he can buy specimens of male and female insects at Mr Janson’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
21 May [1868]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Lists specimens he wants from Mr Janson, emphasising that he always wants male and female.
He extends an invitation for a Sunday in early June.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 84
Summary:
He has been occupied with Royal Geographical Society anniversary meeting, but did go to Janson and selected various specimens for CD, some of which have remarkable stridulating organs.
The habits of Lethrus are found in Kirby and Spence’s Introduction [to entomology, 7th ed. (1856)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
