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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
27 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Field Musuem of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 3)
Summary:

Comments on BDW’s papers ["On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD.

Asks about wide-ranging insect genera,

Rocky Mt. wingless insects,

willow hybrids,

galls,

and other subjects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
9 July [1865]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 4)
Summary:

Thanks BDW for his interesting letter [4839] and for the case of Panagaeus, a genus almost sacred to him since Cambridge days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
19 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 6)
Summary:

Discusses a variety of subjects: Cynips, galls, potato bugs,

male Daphnia laying eggs.

His Primula experiment results differ from John Scott’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project