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Darwin Correspondence Project

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).

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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