To Frederick Bates   26 June [1870?]

Summary

Thanks for Trox beetles which have been forwarded [to London], but unfortunately CD has no microscope here. Is "in despair how to observe them … they sham dead" and are not inclined to stridulate.

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-7245A

From

Charles Robert Darwin

To

Frederick Bates

Date

26 June [1870?]

Sent from

London, Queen Anne St, 6

Source of text

DAR 185: 121

Physical description

2pp

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18.

• Bates, Frederick
• Darwin, C. R.