From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0036)
Summary:
Reports having found orthopteran egg-cases, affixed to a chalk statuette, that had themselves been coated with chalk, without doubt by the insect that deposited them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project