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From John Blackwall   10 August 1869

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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.

Author:  John Blackwall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Aug 1869
Classmark:  DAR 82: 82–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6860

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  • 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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