From Raphael Meldola 13 September 1877
Summary
Has reread copy of Fritz Müller’s letter that CD sent some time ago and would like to publish the entomological observations in it.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11135 |
From Raphael Meldola 21 September 1877
Summary
Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.
Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11147 |
From Raphael Meldola 20 October 1877
Summary
Would like to see the Kosmos article.
Is considering producing a translation of August Weismann’s essays.
Comments on Wallace’s paper on the colours of animals and plants [Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71].
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11192 |