From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick William Hope
Date:
[21 June 1837]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:
Discusses insect specimens he left with FWH. Asks if he may state on FWH’s authority that a third or a half of the specimens from Sydney and Hobart Town are undescribed – a striking fact, showing imperfect knowledge of the insects in the close neighbourhood of the two Australian capitals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project