From H. W. Bates 1 October 1874
Royal Geographical Society | 1, Savile Row. | Burlington Gardens. | W.
Oct. 1 1874
My dear Mr Darwin
Mr Maclachlan, Treasurer & former Secretary of the Entom. Soc.,1 has taken charge of Mrs Barber’s communication & thinks it will be accepted by the Society for publication, with a coloured Plate.2 The phenomenon described is not new, the Society having long ago received communications of a similar nature regarding Pieris brassica &c. but Mrs Barber’s facts are rather more striking than usual.3
Thanks for your kind enquiries regarding my family. I rejoice to say they are all well & have returned invigorated from a long & happy holiday
Mr Belt’s4 address is
Thos Belt
Cornwall House
Ealing W.
Yours sincerely | H W Bates
Footnotes
Bibliography
Barber, Mary Elizabeth. 1874. Notes on the peculiar habits and changes which take place in the larva and pupa of Papilio nireus. [Read 2 November 1874.] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 22: 519–21.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Notes that Mr[s] Barber’s communication [forwarded by CD] will be published because of more striking than usual facts ["Notes on … larva and pupa of Papilio nireus", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1874): 519–21].
Encloses Thomas Belt’s address.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9666
- From
- Henry Walter Bates
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- R. Geogr. Soc.
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 92
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9666,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9666.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
