To Raphael Meldola 26 March [1873]
Summary
Thanks RM for note on ocelli.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 26 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350, Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8823 |
To Raphael Meldola 13 August [1873]
Summary
Thanks RM for his paper on mimicry.
Cannot answer RM’s query because he believes it impossible to define large variations.
Believes monstrosities are generally injurious and are not often, if ever, taken advantage of in nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 13 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9006 |
From Raphael Meldola 13 September 1877
Summary
Has reread copy of Fritz Müller’s letter that CD sent some time ago and would like to publish the entomological observations in it.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11135 |
From Raphael Meldola 21 September 1877
Summary
Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.
Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11147 |
From Raphael Meldola 20 October 1877
Summary
Would like to see the Kosmos article.
Is considering producing a translation of August Weismann’s essays.
Comments on Wallace’s paper on the colours of animals and plants [Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71].
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11192 |
From Raphael Meldola 2 January [1878]
Summary
Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].
Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308 |
From Raphael Meldola 26 January 1878
Summary
Returns Kosmos.
Thanks CD for permission to use Fritz Müller’s last letter, which contains new observations.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11332 |
From Raphael Meldola 22 March 1878
Summary
Encloses proof of the Entomological Society’s Proceedings for February to show the use he has made of Fritz Müller’s letter [see 11319].
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11438 |
From Raphael Meldola 3 May 1878
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.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11493 |
From Raphael Meldola 23 May 1878
Summary
Prof. Wood-Mason has examined Otto Zacharias’ insect photographs and confirmed the genera.
RM is going to work up Fritz Müller’s observations into a paper.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11524 |
From Raphael Meldola 13 June 1878
Summary
Would like to read Weismann’s essay on Daphnidae.
Fritz Müller’s paper on odours emitted by butterflies was read at last Entomological Society meeting.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11553 |
From Raphael Meldola 30 October 1878
Summary
Plans to produce a translation of Weismann’s Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie [1875–6] and would welcome a preface from CD.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11730 |
From Raphael Meldola 1 November 1878
Summary
Thanks for agreeing to write the preface for RM’s translation of Weismann.
Will arrange to meet CD when he comes to London.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11733 |
From Raphael Meldola 25 November 1878
Summary
Thanks for preface. When RM’s translation is complete, would like CD to expand it slightly to refer to overlap between Weismann’s observations and CD’s theories.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11758 |
From Raphael Meldola 11 December 1878
Summary
Is making progress with the Weismann translation.
Wonders whether Francis Darwin would give a botanical lecture at a Bayswater school.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11785 |
From Raphael Meldola 6 February 1879
Summary
Has arranged for publication of his translation of Weismann.
S. H. Scudder article on sexual dimorphism in butterflies [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 12 (1877): 150–8].
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11861 |
From Raphael Meldola 4 April 1879
Summary
Sends specimens from F. Müller.
Criticises A. R. Wallace’s review of Grant Allen’s The colour-sense [Nature 19 (1879): 501–5].
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11975 |
From Raphael Meldola 18 April 1879
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12001 |
From Raphael Meldola 4 June 1879
Summary
Wants to republish Fritz Müller’s paper ["Ituna and Thyridia", Kosmos 5 (1879): 100–8] in Proceedings of the Entomological Society. [Thyridita!?]
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12082 |
From Raphael Meldola 18 June 1879
Summary
Discusses Fritz Müller’s paper on the mutual protection of certain mimics ["Ituna and Thyridita", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1879): xx–xxviii]. [Thyridia!?]
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12113 |
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