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To H. W. Bates   6 February [1877]

From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham

Please return me Prof. Weismann’s letter, as it contains reference about eggs.1 I shall be curious to hear some time how you succeed in your negotiation about the drawings.—2

C.D.

Feb. 6th

ApcS

Postmark: FE 6 77

1
August Weismann’s letter has not been found. CD had suggested that Weismann investigate the colour of birds’ eggs in his letter to Weismann of 12 January 1877.
2
Bates was trying to obtain the loan of drawings of the stages of caterpillars of British Lepidoptera for Weismann (see letter to August Weismann, 12 January 1877 and n. 8).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 ‘Mr.’ altered from ‘Mrs.’
1.2 some time] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10829,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10829