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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 61
Summary:

Sends his paper ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 2d ser. 5 (1861): 223–8, 335–61].

Points out three areas of interest arising from the study of the species of Papilio: the derivation of the fauna, the variability of the species, and the permanence of local varieties.

Discusses J. S. Baly’s views on specific differences in reproductive organs [Catalogue of the Hispidae in the collection of the British Museum (1858)].

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 62
Summary:

Discusses specific varieties, especially geographic varieties.

Comments on the effects of the glacial age on the tropics.

Sexual selection.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Sept 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 63 (fragile)
Summary:

Mention of Volucella.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1861
Source of text:
DAR 205.10: 92
Summary:

Discusses the mimicry of the Volucella flies, and the bees and wasps they mimic. Compares it with the different object of mimicry in butterflies.

Refers to incompleteness of Cuthbert Collingwood’s paper [? "On homophormism, or organic representative forms", Proc. Liverpool Lit. & Philos. Soc. 14 (1860): 181–216].

Thanks CD for help in selecting a publisher for his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Dec] 1861
Source of text:
DAR 205.10: 93
Summary:

Furnishes CD with more information on Volucella and gives him references relating to this and butterfly colourings. States that colours are not necessarily related to resting-places but rather an endowment to enable them to withstand adverse conditions.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 64
Summary:

Sends CD ch. 2 of his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons] for suggestions, having accepted CD’s recommendations concerning ch. 1.

Effects of climate on dress in ch. 1 similar to, but independent of, notions expressed by CD in his Journal of researches [p. 381].

On geology, book deals with distribution and theory of deltas of the Amazon.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 65
Summary:

Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.

Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 65a
Summary:

Thanks CD for returned MS and letter with its good opinion. Asks CD to write to Murray.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 66
Summary:

Accepts CD’s invitation.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 47: 175, DAR 160.1: 67–8
Summary:

Discusses insects of south temperate S. America and New Zealand, especially with respect to the distribution and origin of Chilean Carabi, and has sent for a German monograph to learn about the eleven species he has found.

He refers to Chilean poverty in butterflies; scanty New Zealand insect fauna.

An analysis of south temperate insects is desirable, but the small English collections make him afraid to undertake it.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 69
Summary:

Miocene glacial period a remarkable discovery; if it is true, enlargement of Tertiary period necessary.

Received German monograph on Chilean Carabi that does not answer where isolated species came from.

HWB finds genital modifications of Chrysomela strong support for the theory.

Thanks for copy of Orchids.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 70
Summary:

Sends answer to Wedgwood’s query

and is sorry to hear CD is again unwell.

His book is progressing very slowly.

Asks that CD not make use of any of the facts about generative organs in beetles for he finds "such a chaos of statements" that facts are not to be depended upon.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 71
Summary:

Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.

Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].

Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 72
Summary:

Gratified by CD’s approval of paper which was also praised by Hooker and Wallace. Only cares for one other opinion, that of C. Felder of Vienna. He finds ordinary entomologists are not scientific men. Asks for more criticisms; desires to publish paper in a widely circulating journal to advertise his book.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 205.8: 67 (Letters)
Summary:

Has sent copy of his paper to Asa Gray.

Melastomad flowers are strikingly neglected by pollinators.

Murray has ordered many illustrations for HWB’s Naturalist on the river Amazons.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 73
Summary:

Wallace noticed that melastomads in Malay archipelago were visited by small Hymenoptera.

Darwinism discussed at the last meeting of the Zoological Society. The Darwinians had the best of it.

HWB has committed the "folly" of marriage [to Sarah Ann Mason, 15 Jan 1863].

Printing of vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons] is nearly finished.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 74
Summary:

Preparations under way to move to London account for delay in thanking CD for his review [Collected papers 2: 87–92].

His book is finished, and he is sending a copy to CD; owing to the great expense few copies will be sent to reviewers.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 75
Summary:

Expresses hope that CD is ready to pronounce sentence on his book;

he relates his financial position and mentions that he hopes to get a position at the British Museum.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 76
Summary:

His satisfaction at CD’s acceptance of book as well as total public acceptance. Murray has given him a £250 advance. His pleasure at Asa Gray’s words.

Next task will be to write on origin [of species] by segregation of local races.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 77
Summary:

HWB’s concern over CD’s poor health.

Gives accounts of reviews of his book in the Times and in the Revue des Deux-Mondes by E.-D. Forgues ["Un naturaliste sous l’équateur", Rev. Deux-Mondes 46 (1863): 703–37].

Thanks CD for the A. Gray review of his paper [see 4022].

Reports his current work is a monograph on Mantidae.

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