To Raphael Meldola 7 February 1879
Down,
Feb. 7th. 1879.
Dear Mr. Meldola,
Pray keep Kosmos as long as you like, and I am glad to hear that you will write abstract.1 I can’t but think Mr. Sampson Low right about subscription, and I beg you to put down my name.2
I have Mr. Edward’s paper3 but have not yet found time to read it—& I have seen Mr. Saunders but many thanks for telling me— I have many letters to write so no more4
Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin.
Wallace’s article in 19th. Cent; seemed to me quite excellent.5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Müller, Fritz. 1879a. Epicalia Acontius. Ein ungleiches Ehepaar. Kosmos 4 (1878–9): 285–92.
Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. 1877. Antigeny, or sexual dimorphism in butterflies. [Read 14 March 1877.] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 12: 150–8.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1879c. Animals and their native countries. Nineteenth Century 5: 247–59.
Weismann, August. 1880–2. Studies in the theory of descent. Translated by Raphael Meldola. 3 parts. Part I (1880): On the seasonal dimorphism of butterflies. Part II (1881): The origin of the markings of caterpillars. On phyletic parallelism in metamorphic species. Part III (1882): The transformation of the Mexican axolotl into amblystoma. On the mechanical conception of nature. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.
Summary
Wishes to subscribe to RM’s translation of Weismann.
Has seen Scudder’s article.
A. R. Wallace’s article ["Animals and their native countries", Nineteenth Century 5 (1879): 247–59] is excellent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11862
- 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
- C 2pp, CD cov
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11862,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11862.xml
