From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 80
Summary:
Expresses pleasure at signs of CD’s recovery.
HWB’s work on the identification of species of the genus Colobthea; relates the large number of modifications that occur in the sexual organs of closely allied species. Does not doubt that this contributes greatly to multiplication of species in nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
