From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 137
Summary:
Madeiran insects. Regards the "Atlantic province" as a centre of the Coleoptera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Showing 1–2 of 2 items
The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Madeiran insects. Regards the "Atlantic province" as a centre of the Coleoptera.
On the relationship of the loss of the powers of flight [in Coleoptera] to increase of bulk.