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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[28 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 58
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Questions CD’s view in Variation that Torfschwein formerly ranged from Europe to China.
Cites numerous German publications relating to CD’s theory.
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)].