From H. W. Bates   14 June 1862

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.

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-3604

From

Henry Walter Bates

To

Charles Robert Darwin

Date

14 June 1862

Sent from

Leicester

Source of text

DAR 160.1: 70

Physical description

2pp

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10.

• Bates, H. W.
• Darwin, C. R.