To Raphael Meldola 14 September 1877
Summary
Is doubtful about the publication of Fritz Müller’s letter after so long an interval.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11140 |
To Raphael Meldola 22 September [1877]
Summary
Thinks the facts in Fritz Müller’s letter could be published.
Recommends August Weismann’s essay on dimorphism ["Über den Saison-Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge", Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie 1 (1875)]
and has no doubt that intermediate forms could be eliminated as RM suggests.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11148 |
To Raphael Meldola 27 September [1877]
Summary
Does not think Fritz Müller can object to anything RM has said in his essay.
Has alluded to colour preference among butterflies in Descent [1: 400–1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11154 |
To Raphael Meldola 19 October [1877]
Summary
Interesting article by Fritz Müller on sexual selection in butterflies, Kosmos [1 (1877): 388–95].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11189 |
To Raphael Meldola 22 October [1877]
Summary
Thinks Weismann would welcome a translation.
Was dissatisfied with Wallace’s article.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11197 |
To Raphael Meldola 31 October [1877]
Summary
Hopes RM finds a publisher [for his translation of Weismann’s Studien].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 31 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11217 |
