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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
3 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks HWB for references.

Praises his paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", read before Linnean Society, 21 Nov 1861, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862) : 495–566] which solves "one of the most perplexing problems which could be given to solve".

Discusses the difficulties of writing and expresses disappointment at Wallace’s book [Travels on the Amazon (1861)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
3 December [1861]
Source of text:
Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
3 Dec 1861
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £245 18s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project