From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 263
Summary:
Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
21 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36222)
Summary:
His Dytiscus fact interesting. Indispensable to know name of shell. Case worth communicating to Nature. [See "On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Nature 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 264
Summary:
Has identified the shell, now separated from the beetle. Sends both to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36224)
Summary:
Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project