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DCP-LETT-3092

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 61
Summary:

Sends his paper ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 2d ser. 5 (1861): 223–8, 335–61].

Points out three areas of interest arising from the study of the species of Papilio: the derivation of the fauna, the variability of the species, and the permanence of local varieties.

Discusses J. S. Baly’s views on specific differences in reproductive organs [Catalogue of the Hispidae in the collection of the British Museum (1858)].

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DCP-LETT-3104

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 62
Summary:

Discusses specific varieties, especially geographic varieties.

Comments on the effects of the glacial age on the tropics.

Sexual selection.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3100

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
26 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Comments on the great extent of variations and on the acknowledgment of the new idea of greater female variety.

Expresses belief that the glacial period did affect the tropics, though HWB’s arguments have confounded him.

Poses a series of questions concerning sexual selection.

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