To Raphael Meldola 25 May 1878
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
May 25. 1878
My dear Sir,
The living beettles & the cooccoons were found in a small paper packet containing the seeds.1 Those from which the beetles had emerged were much broken & the larvæ had evidently attacked some of the other seeds. I am sorry to say that some of the injured ones were thrown away. I am glad that you are going to draw up a paper from Fritz Müller’s letters2
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Fritz Müller had sent CD some seeds that turned out to contain beetles. CD had sent the beetles to Meldola; Meldola had asked to see the seeds as well. See letter from Raphael Meldola, 23 May 1878 and n. 3.
See letter from Raphael Meldola, 23 May 1878 and n. 4. Müller had sent CD some notes on Brazilian entomology with his letter of 5 April 1878. CD forwarded the letter and notes to Meldola with his letter of 15 May [1878].
Summary
Is glad RM will draw up a paper from Fritz Müller’s letter.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11529
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Raphael Meldola
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11529,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11529.xml
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