To Raphael Meldola 26 March [1873]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. [16 Montague Street, London.]
March 26th
Dear Sir
I write one line to thank you for your note.— Your exception almost proves the rule.—1 I hope that you will before long continue & complete your researches on mimetic forms.—2
Dear Sir
Footnotes
Meldola had provided CD with an example of sexual difference in the ocelli on the wings of a species of butterfly (see letter from Raphael Meldola, 24 March 1873 and n. 1).
See letter from Raphael Meldola, 24 March 1873 and n. 3.
Summary
Thanks RM for note on ocelli.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8823
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Raphael Meldola
- Sent from
- London, Montague St, 16 Down letterhead
- Postmark
- MR 28 73
- Source of text
- Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350, Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8823,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8823.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
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