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
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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.
Comments on TVW’s book [On the variation of species with special reference to the Insecta (1856)].
On TVW’s Unitarianism. Predicts TVW will fall further away from Christianity.
[Letter sent by TVW to Charles Lyell.]