From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
9 May [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Referring to conversation with Lyell, CD is certain that there was a Miocene glacial period.
Compliments HWB on the mimetic display at the British Museum. Those at the Museum readily accepted HWB’s "doctrine".
Was shown genital organs of closely allied Chrysomelidae.
Albert Günther is candidate for position at Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project