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From John Blackwall 10 August 1869

Immature male spiders usually resemble in colour the females of their species of the same age. In some species colours of sexes differ when mature.

… Miss Holland was probably Mary Holland (or possibly her younger sister, Lucy ), of Knutsford, Cheshire, second cousins of CD and Emma Darwin. CD had been injured in an accident while riding his horse in April 1869; see letter …

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