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DCP-LETT-5893

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A4–5
Summary:

Has put question of proportion of sexes in insects to the Entomological Society. Quotes H. T. Stainton and F. Smith. Cites some cases mentioned by other members.

Is reading Variation; does not quite understand Pangenesis.

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DCP-LETT-5909

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A32–3
Summary:

Comments on J. O. Westwood’s entomological nomenclature.

Discusses the organs for stridulation in Orthoptera [see Descent 1: 352ff].

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DCP-LETT-5936

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A34–5
Summary:

Finds no absolute differences in size of sexes of Copridae. Gives several other genera in which males are larger than females.

Confirms his view of stridulation organ of house cricket. [see Descent 1: 354–5.]

Tells CD of a powerful convert to Darwinism: H. von Kiesenwetter of Berlin.

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