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DCP-LETT-5858

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
11 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks about proportions of male to female insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
19 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD in utter confusion about differences between J. O. Westwood and HWB on division of certain insects. Asks if HWB will homologise certain families for him, telling him which terms would be most generally understood.

Asks also about differences on sound-producing organs of Achetidae Gryllidae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5914

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
22 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph file, D)
Summary:

Thanks HWB for bringing "the question of sexes" before the Entomological Society. Feels he will come to some conclusion by comparison of numerous observations.

It appears Pangenesis "will expire unblessed and uncursed by the world".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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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