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From B. D. Walsh   [before 31 October 1868]1

Extracts from a Journal of the doings of Cic. septemdecim in Penna. in 1851. By Dr. W. D. Hartman, of West Chester, Penna. June 6 & 7, 1851.2 They seem now to be all up, & the drums

incomplete

CD annotations

Verso: ‘Just like Birds— Perhaps only a call note & best caller’ ink
1
The date is established by the relationship between this fragment and the letter to B. D. Walsh, 31 October 1868.
2
CD quoted from William Dell Hartman’s ‘Journal of the Doings of Cicada septemdecim’ on the drumming sounds of the male insect in Descent 1: 351; in n. 24, he noted that Walsh had sent him the extract. The extracts have not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL; no book or paper in which they were published has been identified. CD had received information from Walsh on the stridulation of male insects in his letter of 29 August 1868.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5755,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5755