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DCP-LETT-5934B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert McLachlan
Date:
25 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology)
Summary:

Is obliged for the facts about the hybrids [see 5910], which permit him to reject the view of B. D. Walsh (and H. W. Bates?) that organs play an important part in keeping incipient species distinct.

He has asked John Murray to send RM a copy of Variation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6332A

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1868
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Charles Valentine Riley papers, Scrapbook no. 9, p. 61); DAR 47: 180; DAR 193: 54; Field Museum (pasted into C. V. Riley’s personal copy of his own 1st Annual Report of the Missouri State Entomologist)
Summary:

On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.

Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.

Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.

Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.

Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.

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