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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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