To Raphael Meldola 27 January [1872]1
Pray keep the specimens as long as you wish.— I have read your letter with interest & pleasure.—2 I have vague recollection of Mr Trimen in Transact. Linn. Soc. or of Mr Butler of Brit. Mus. mentioning the case of ♂ alone mimicking some other Butterfly.3
C. Darwin
Down. Jan. 27th
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Invites RM to keep some specimens as long as he wishes.
Recalls vaguely the mention of a butterfly species in which the male alone is mimetic.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8184
- 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
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8184,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8184.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20