From Raphael Meldola 3 May 1878
Collection Litolff | Enoch Père & Fils Editeurs de Musique | 27, Boulevard des Italiens, 27 | Paris | Maison à Londres | 19, Holles Street. W. | Chez M. N. Astruc | 7 Rue Blanche | Paris,
May 3/78
My dear Sir,
I must beg you to excuse my apparent neglect in not answering your letter of April 17th. sooner but I have been detained in Paris on business connected with the Exhibition & your letter has only just reached me.1
I am exceedingly obliged to you for the photographs & will exhibit them at the next meeting of the Entom. Soc.2 I will get the moths named immediately on my return with the greatest pleasure & communicate the names to you.3
I hope to return to London next week.
Fritz Müller’s observation on the relative abundance of mimicking & mimicked species opens out some important questions in the theory of mimicry—4 I had already collected a number of observations bearing on this phase of the question & as soon as I can find time I propose to organize them for publication.
Believe me, dear Sir, | Yours very faithfully | R. Meldola.
Footnotes
Bibliography
EB: The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11.
Meldola, Raphael. 1882a. Contributions to the chemical history of the aromatic derivatives of methane. Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions 41: 187–201.
Summary
Will exhibit the photos at the Entomological Society and have them identified.
Fritz Müller’s observations on relative abundance of mimicking and mimicked species.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11493
- From
- Raphael Meldola
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Paris
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 127
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11493,” accessed on
