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To Miss Holland [May 1856]
Summary
An entomologist who has been staying with CD [T. V. Wollaston] says the pupa she sent would turn into a lackey moth.
Adds that the great destruction of birds in the winter preceding the last is probable cause of survival of caterpillars and resulting numerous cocoons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Miss Holland |
| Date: | [May 1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1861 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … in his garden during that winter in Origin , p. 68. Emma Darwin’s note has been excised. …
- … who visited the Darwins from 25 to 28 April 1856 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See n. 2, above. …
- … interlined in a different hand, possibly Emma Darwin’s , after ‘first-rate Entomologist’ …
- … Emma demands the rest of this note, so pray believe me, dear Miss Holland, yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin …
