From H. W. Bates 17 October 1862

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

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3771,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3771

Summary

Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.

Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].

Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-3771
From: Henry Walter Bates
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: 17 Oct 1862
Sent from: Leicester
Source of text: DAR 160.1: 71
Physical description: 5pp

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