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DCP-LETT-4477

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr – 19 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 181: 9
Summary:

Recalls being introduced to CD when [undergraduate] at Cambridge.

Sends CD some of his pamphlets

and expresses support of Origin.

Has discovered there are "3 sexes" in the solitary Cynips as well as social insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
21 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and memoirs.

Suggests a "rather hopeless experiment" of introducing poisons into tissues of plants on the chance that monstrous growths may be produced.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4663

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 181: 10
Summary:

Notes Louis Agassiz’s opinions on CD’s views.

Mating and sexual organs of insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Summary:

Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".

The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4698F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
[4 Dec 1864?]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Summary:

Sends J. O. Westwood’s direction.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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