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DCP-LETT-1767

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
20 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 15)
Summary:

Would be useless to insert CD’s name [on masthead of Entomologists’ Annual] since he does not work on insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1853

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
13 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 16)
Summary:

Thanks HTS for Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [no. 2, 12 Apr 1856]. Agrees with his remarks [in "Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal Medal?"], but explains that a change in rules for awarding the Royal Medal has been made. Earlier it had to be given for publications in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which explains small number of entomologist recipients.

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DCP-LETT-2829

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
11 June [1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 17)
Summary:

On what kind of moth have pollen-masses of orchids been found cohering? Will ask Mr Parfitt if he is certain he recognised pollen-masses of bee orchid. CD thinks green masses were those of true Orchis.

[In P.S., having received a letter on subject from HTS responding to same query published in Gard. Chron. 9 June 1860:] It is extremely curious that the same moth has been found with pollen-masses in two parts of England.

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DCP-LETT-2839

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
20 June [1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 18)
Summary:

Has had a very satisfactory answer from Mr Parfitt. Asks HTS to insert query in Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer and also to answer it himself. ["Do the Tineina and other small moths suck flowers?", Collected papers 2: 35–6.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5890

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
18 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 20)
Summary:

Asks for information on coloration and proportions of sexes in butterflies and moths for his work on sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5907

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
21 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 21)
Summary:

Discusses factors possibly influencing the sex of caterpillars. Is gathering information on sex ratios in insects and would welcome any cases in which males seem to outnumber females.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5949

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
28 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
E.W. Classey Ltd (dealers) (1974)
Summary:

Asks whether the colouring of particular butterflies has any protective function, to ascertain whether the function is other than sexual.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5967

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
2 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 23)
Summary:

Thanks HTS for his valuable information. Hopes to arrive at probable answer to question of proportion of males to females in the progeny of butterflies bred in domestication.

On courtship of butterflies, CD believes something more than chance is involved in determining which male is successful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10385

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
11 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 26)
Summary:

Has signed enclosure [Royal Society nomination for McLachlan] with pleasure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13359

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
28 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (L MSS DAR A/27)
Summary:

Thanks HTS for a Dahlia flower, but analogous cases of such "bud-variation" have been observed before.

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