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From Raphael Meldola   13 September 1877

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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
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