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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
15 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for paper and references on variations [missing].

Regrets HWB’s trouble about artists, etc., saying such trouble is a law of nature.

Asks whether HWB has heard of starving Indians who are forced to cook in different ways, and eat new things.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170: 34
Summary:

Thinks Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566], is very good; would appreciate an article on it from CD ["On mimetic butterflies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 219–24; Collected papers 2: 87–92].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Sarah Faraday
Date:
15 December 1862
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 455
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir Isaac L. Bell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.40
Summary:

Invitation to JH to visit him if he is attending the B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project