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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
