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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

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Raphael Meldola, 25 January 1872.
3
CD refers to Roland Trimen, the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Arthur Gardiner Butler, and the British Museum. CD was probably recalling a letter by Butler in Nature, 29 December 1870, p. 165 (see also Correspondence vol. 19, letter from A. G. Butler, 2 June 1871 and nn. 5–8, 13).

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.

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8184,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8184.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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